This month, I read Anne of Green Gables for the very first time. I’ve always known about that young girl with the bright red braids, but never knew what goes on between those pages. I found a copy while browsing a second-hand English bookstore here in Munich. The adorable cartoon Anne on the cover called to me.Continue reading “Summer, Must You Go So Soon?”
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Wise Words from Wise Women
Once upon a time, in January 2019, I went to a community theatre show with a group of new friends. (The show was called Seminar, about a group of writers, which was very apt for us, a group of writers.) After the show, we found ourselves in a bar nearby, where we proceeded to laugh and drinkContinue reading “Wise Words from Wise Women”
My Cocoon Era
One reality: It’s a Friday morning in Munich. I’m sitting in a cozy cafe at a large wooden table with other writers as lo-fi pulsates through the speakers. Large windows surround me, showing me the clear sky outside, a tantalizing blue. After I finish writing this, I’ll stroll along the historical streets of the city,Continue reading “My Cocoon Era”
Meetings and Partings
It seems every time I sit down to write about Manchester, it’s raining. Raindrops trickle down the glass of the window beside me and for a moment, I allow myself the thought that Manchester is mourning my leaving. (Then I remember a friend recently told me it rains in Manchester 152 days out of theContinue reading “Meetings and Partings”
Ending Credits
This past week, my husband and I were fortunate enough to have two friends from the States visit us in the U.K. We’ve known these friends for almost a decade, having first met them in college. It’s fun to meet people when they’re teenagers navigating life in college, and now know them as adults navigatingContinue reading “Ending Credits”
Head in the Clouds
As a kid, I once heard that you should always be able to look up at the clouds in the sky and see pictures within those shapes. This one’s a duck, that one’s a pirate ship. If you look at a cloud and cannot find the hidden picture within, well, that just means you doContinue reading “Head in the Clouds”
Favorite 2023 Reads
Over the last few years, I’ve been honing my tastes and discovering what books I really love. As a result, this past year I’ve loved some books so much that I absorbed them into my being and they now make up most of my personality. Whoops. Using Goodreads, my favorite app/website to track what booksContinue reading “Favorite 2023 Reads”
The Cusp
About a month ago, I was cleaning out my apartment, as I had been doing for days on end by that point. I was stuck in an endless loop of moving boxes to our storage unit, texting friends asking if they wanted anything, posting items on Facebook marketplace, and rocking in a fetal position whilstContinue reading “The Cusp”
The Lost Art, and the One Who Perfected It
In June, I finished reading The Letters of Shirley Jackson. Now, a month later, I can confidently say: I am totally and completely obsessed. I find myself thinking about the collection at least once a day. I cannot believe I read 600 pages of letters Shirley Jackson wrote in her lifetime and am still leftContinue reading “The Lost Art, and the One Who Perfected It”
Story Behind the Story: “Speechless”
What if there was a limit to how many words you could speak each day? How would that affect our relationships with others? Would we find new ways to communicate? Would we discover all the ways that already exist? This is the premise of my newest story “Speechless,” published in Dandelion Revolution Press‘s latest anthologyContinue reading “Story Behind the Story: “Speechless””
Paige Gardner 