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Up, Up and Away by Judith Morrison

May 15, 2022May 15, 2022 - Leave a Comment

I’m sitting in the waiting room at my nephrologist’s office and staring at the large bulletin board beside the reception desk. The board contains pictures and descriptions of various kidney …

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Get Your Daily Dose of Nature: Reading ‘The Wild Remedy’ by Emma Mitchell

April 3, 2022May 3, 2022 - Leave a Comment

As warmer weather takes over here in Virginia, I feel a flutter in my chest and a tickle up my spine as the anticipation builds within me. Though many of …

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Letter from the Editor

January 1, 2022May 3, 2022 - Leave a Comment

Happy New Year! The first day of a new year feels like a good time to announce the rebirth of Chronically Lit.  My name is Jay, and I’m the CL …

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Teaching Everyone, Disabled or Not, How to Overcome Their Fears: Fundamentals of Caring Review by Hawken Miller

September 28, 2020May 3, 2022 - Leave a Comment

Ben Benjamin (Paul Rudd) sits for his first interview as a newly-minted caregiver and exchanges a few niceties with Elsa, the mother of his patient-to-be. Before they have a chance …

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Caves by Brittani Miller

September 21, 2020May 3, 2022 - Leave a Comment

Humans love to believe that it’s going to get better. Her lungs had been the first thing to go. She couldn’t venture up a flight of stairs without a five-minute …

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I Don’t Know by Lindsey Schaffer

September 21, 2020May 3, 2022 - Leave a Comment

Look both ways before crossing the street, always chew before you swallow, don’t talk to strangers. These are the first basic lessons I learned from my parents.  As I grew …

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Questions without Answers by Wendy Kennar

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 - Leave a Comment

During dinner recently, my ten-year-old son Ryan told me his fifth-grade class was learning about communicable diseases. It was a hard word to say, and he struggled to pronounce it …

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Photography by Danielle Hark

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Artist’s Statement: My work comes from my lived experience with bipolar disorder, psychiatric hospitalization, migraines, and PTSD. Poetry and art have been important therapeutic tools throughout my healing journey. I …

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Judy Suite (Six Visual Poems) by Chris Gavaler

July 9, 2020September 18, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Artistic statement: “Judy Suite” is a sequence of graphic requiems recounting my mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. Chris Gavaler is an associate professor of English at W&L University, where he serves …

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Putting Out What You Might Put Away

May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 - 1 Comment

Putting Out What You Might Put Away A crib and changing table are quietlydismantled but all the socks are paired confetti,and the hats and the layettes grown dustyin the drawers, …

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Up, Up and Away by Judith Morrison

May 15, 2022May 15, 2022

A graphic that contains the post title on the left side ("Get Your Daily Dose of Nature: Reading The Wild Remedy by Emma Mitchell Book Review by Christine Bushrow") then, to the right of a green diagonal line, a forest photo with sun streaming through the trees.

Get Your Daily Dose of Nature: Reading ‘The Wild Remedy’ by Emma Mitchell

April 3, 2022May 3, 2022

Image saying We are back in fluorescent lights

Letter from the Editor

January 1, 2022May 3, 2022

fundamentals of caring movie review

Teaching Everyone, Disabled or Not, How to Overcome Their Fears: Fundamentals of Caring Review by Hawken Miller

September 28, 2020May 3, 2022

Caves by Brittani Miller

September 21, 2020May 3, 2022

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