Month of Joy: Fate/Grand Order by Chrysoula Tzavelas
I thought hard about what I wanted to write about for the Month of Joy but eventually I knew what it had to be: the game called Fate/Grand Order. It’s a little silly, it’s a little weird, but oh my gosh, especially right now as the first major story arc closes out, it brings me […]
Month of Joy: Maker Space by Mary Anne Mohanraj
There was a moment in grad school. Kevin and I had split up and I was desperately broken-hearted. I’d been getting up at 4 a.m. every morning to an alarm because it was the best time for me to concentrate, when the world was dark and still, writing by the light of a candle. I’d […]
Month of Joy: Putting Ink to Paper by Keith Manuel
Last year I got into fountain pens in a big way. I liked the idea of escaping from the rapid pace of modern communication, just for a few minutes. I bought a Pilot Metropolitan online and got to work leaking ink everywhere and abusing the pen’s poor nib. Little had I known that I took […]
Month of Joy: Listening to the Odyssey by Kate Heartfield
This fall, I taught an evening course at a university about an hour’s drive from my house. The drive in was a dismal drive at the tail-end of rush hour, and at this latitude at this time of year, the journey was dark both ways. In those dark and tired hours, I found a source […]
Month of Joy: My Father by Ausma Zehanat Khan
My father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease several years ago. Unfortunately, his variant of the disease included symptoms of gradually worsening dementia. The tragic irony of this is that my father was a psychiatrist for whom mental health was a lifelong calling. When I was in high school casting about for projects to work on, […]
Month of Joy: Socks by Rhiannon Held
Something that never fails to bring me joy is $1 Target seasonal socks. I know I’m not alone in my enjoyment of fancy, patterned socks—they’re the subject of entire specialty stores, one of which is even a 5-minute drive from my apartment, not to mention the staggering variety available online. Patterned socks are a way […]
