I live in the Southern United States, where we see a few inches of snow each winter if we’re lucky. Having grown up in Massachusetts, I do miss the blanket of white so bright it hurts your eyes. Adults love to complain about the inconvenience caused by a big snowfall, but those first few snowflakes […]

For those of you who have enjoyed our Friday Shorts segment, I have some baddish news. Please, both of you, have a seat. We’re going to be doing it a bit less. Maybe a lot less. I had high hopes for SW Shorts, and I had dreams of many wonderful things we could do with […]

In a writing class last fall, my teacher asked the class to recall a smell from our past. We then followed the memory wherever it took us. I was amazed at how vividly things came back to us. We were made with such a powerful sense of smell, inevitably tied to thought and memory. What […]

Art by Zach Franzen — The Dining Habits of Polonius Wheeler By S. D. Smith THERE was a large giant who lived in the woods, His name was Polonius Wheeler. He mostly was nice, just a singular vice, He sometimes became a sheep-stealer. Wheeler rolled in, nonchalant, to the meadow, And much to the shepherd’s […]

Who Has Seen the Wind? By Christina Rossetti  Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. Jamin Still hastily created this […]