Divine Roots of Disbelief
Ronlyn Domingue encounters more questions than answers about the nature of her spirituality.

Interview with River Jordan, Author of Praying for Strangers (a Memoir)
River Jordan’s two sons were headed for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She channeled her worry through prayer—for strangers—with beautiful unexpected results.

The Burning Fate of a Writer’s Archive
What importance or value does a writer’s archive have? Ronlyn Domingue ponders the fate of hers. With matches at hand.

Interview with Carolyn Turgeon, Author of Mermaid
Carolyn Turgeon’s third novel, Mermaid, is a dark sensual exploration of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale.

Leave It
A lesson in the value of leaves changes one urban landscape.

The Heart Knows What It Wants
Inside the tailored coat of a banker beat the aching heart of an aspiring architect.

Handmade Beloved

Cyclical Surprise of the Seeds
Two plants and one cat reveal the space between surrender and resistance.

Mother’s Bleeding
Ronlyn Domingue's poem is the width of the biosphere in maternal instinct.

What He Taught Me from Death Row (4 of 4)
Ronlyn Domingue remembers the last three weeks of Feltus’ life and the lessons that followed.

What He Taught Me from Death Row (3 of 4)
There’s a fifth, then a sixth execution date. Feltus’ autobiography has gaps only he can fill. Time and patience are running out.

What He Taught Me from Death Row (2 of 4)
While she tries to make sense of his case file facts and what she learns about him in person, Ronlyn Domingue keeps her distance.

What He Taught Me from Death Row (1 of 4)
Ronlyn Domingue served as a writing coach for a man working on his autobiography—from Death Row. This is how she got involved.

The Party to End All Parties
Ronlyn Domingue went to a party she never forgot. It changed the course of her life.

Art, Meaning, and the Unexpected Jones

I Hope My Grandfather Watched as the Saints Marched In
This Super Bowl, the Saints came marching in for Ronlyn Domingue's family--and thousands of others.

One Wound, Two Scars
The past is only skin deep, Ronlyn Domingue experiences after a minor accident.

Urban Forest Fire Dirge
In touch with her Inner Druid, Ronlyn Domingue ponders the lives of remembered trees, while they burn.

Strange Sleep of the Six-Legged
Insects enter suspended states of being, Ronlyn Domingue noticed.

My Horrible New York Times Review

How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Russians (Iraqis, North Koreans, and so on) and Hate War

A Thousand Words: I Was an Unwilling Beauty Pageant Contestant
In the 1970s, a secret committee selected Ronlyn Domingue to be her elementary school’s representative at the Little Miss Lafayette pageant. What happened next transformed her wardrobe and the rest of her life.

Fowl Freak-Out: A Vegetarian’s Tale
Something formerly furred or feathered for dinner? No thanks, she decided.