INTERDEPENDENCE: Cynthia Kaplan, “We Were the Donner Party” (6/6)
Sometimes the best way to get people to hear your music is to give them something to watch. I played this new song at gigs all winter, and I knew that if I didn’t make…
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INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “The Life Cycle of a Fruit Fly” (6/6)
The life cycle of drosophila melanogaster, / also known as the common fruit fly, / consists of copulation, which lasts 15-20 minutes, then the…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “Not So Much Falling in Love as Leaping into It” (5/6)
In January my older brother Paul came out without even saying a single word; / I found him wrapped around the body of another…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “All Human Beings Spend 1/3 of Their Lives Asleep” (4/6)
In physics class last year our professor talked about how dark energy / is still a transient concept, something that scientists…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “Poem for the Day I Cut My Hair in Memory of You Leaving” (3/6)
Because you moved to Canada and left me here with the cat / and a few hundred bags…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “The Summer I Shrank and You Expanded” (2/6)
The year we dissected a squid and ate its tentacles piece / by piece down at the pier next to your house was the year…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “For Twenty-Year-Olds Who Have Never Been Loved” (1/6)
In the spirit of July’s Interdependence theme, this week’s Featured Creative is the inspiringly prolific poet, Meggie Royer.
The Recovering Politician
Steps 11-12For those readers who have been carefully digesting Steps One through Ten that precede this chapter, you might have concluded…
The Recovering Politician”
Steps 9-10The lessons outlined in this chapter are almost universal. For example, if your business is suffering from a public…
The Recovering Politician
Steps 7-8I will always savor the moment: proudly standing on a flower-covered dias in a packed, Missouri Houe chamber, with my right hand raised, repeating my oath…
The Recovering Politician
Steps 4-6That’s why it is so important to connect on some relatable level. You have something in common with your audience, but it can’t be your wrecked car and their toothache.
The Recovering Politician
steps 1-3I was disappointed with myself. Like most successful politicians–like most successful leaders in any profession, I imagine–I’m a registered Type A control-freak.
The Recovering Politician
IntroductionOur first Featured Creative for our July theme of Interdependence is Jonathan Miller, former Kentucky State Treasurer and gubernatorial candidate…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau’s Future (7/7)
In an ideal world, the magazine would be profitable enough that I could publish it for a living. But let’s look at the facts. Hausfrau has a number of things going for it as…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau as Print Magazine (6/7)
Why do print when it’s so expensive? There are a number of reasons. First, I’m a bit of a Luddite and a sentimentalist. Second, as a reading experience, turning…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau Shooting Challenges (5/7)
Having no budget to speak of makes shooting a bit harder, because I can’t really ask people who are volunteering to show up at 7 a.m. when the light is good. I do try…