Yearly Archives: 2014

Featured on HuffPost Women: Women Need to Stop Apologizing!

Whew! The last few days here at The Manifest-Station have been wild. Thank you to the Today Show and Yahoo! and The Daily Mail...

Kennedy Vagina.

Kennedy Vagina By Amy TurnerWhen I was nine my mom dressed me like a Kennedy and told me my vagina stuck out. It was 1984....

Reflections on a Friend’s Suicide.

Reflections on a Friend's Suicide by Susan Lerner Fifteen years ago, as a newcomer to Indianapolis, I packed my tots into the minivan and drove...

Thank You To The Today Show & Cosmopolitan UK & The Daily Mail UK!

This is exciting! A post I published a week ago called "I Like This Picture of My Cellulite: A 19 Year Old’s Journey To...

Trigger Finger: An Essay on Gun Control.

Trigger Finger: An Essay on Gun Control. By Kirsten Larson. My father was gone two weeks when a man I didn’t know was my mother’s new...

Late Bloomer.

LATE BLOOMER by Suzy Vitello.* So, today is my birthday. I’m 53. Yup. Fifty-fucking-three. If I lived 100 years ago, I’d probably have false teeth by now. And...

Patchouli: An Untraditional Father’s Day Post.

Patchouli: An Untraditional Father's Day Post by Amy Roost. I was six. She was twenty-six. I was a chubby, dishwater-blonde tomboy. She was a tall, lithe,...

Hold It All.

By Ally Hamilton. When I was 12 years old a guy grabbed me on my way to ballet class. I was walking in the same...

Maya, Malcolm X and Me.

Maya, Malcolm X and Me. by Leza Lowitz On Wednesday, May 28th, Maya Angelou died at the age of 86. Born Marguerite Annie Johnson, she’d taken...

Sex & Sickly Girl.

By Litsa Dremousis. I stood nude in my doorway and laughed. “Thomas! Come here!” I called to my dog, a willful Pomeranian who’d jetted into my building’s...

Betrayals

Well, there’s the big one. My father coming home with chocolate covered marshmallows for me on July 14, 1983 before changing into his hideous frayed...

This Broke My Heart. Please Read & Share & Remember This Incredible Moment Is All We’ve Got.

I just got this email and my heart is breaking. I met Tiana when she came to my April Dallas workshop. We've got to be...
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