Lea CelesteSpringI’m accustomed to this loneliness, this grief. When my mother died in 2014, the sharp break between her life and her death cut me off from…Jul 31, 2021Jul 31, 2021
Lea CelesteAnother Day at South RiverThree women try to survive a day at a middle school in Houston, TX.Dec 18, 2018Dec 18, 2018
Lea CelesteMillennials aren’t killing divorce — we are reinventing marriageRecently, Buzzfeed released an article about a newly published report: how millennials are to blame for declining divorce rates. This got…Dec 3, 2018Dec 3, 2018
Lea CelesteHow Capitalism is Killing CreativityA tightness in my chest and my throat. Shallow breaths, barely making it through my windpipe. Can’t get enough air. Pressure. Weight…Nov 14, 20181Nov 14, 20181
Lea CelesteComing home: healing from white supremacyWe are an entire country founded on trauma.Oct 5, 2018Oct 5, 2018
Lea CelesteThis essay will not tell you how to be a better writer.There is a concept in anarchism, mutual aid, the idea that in an ideal society we would all support each other towards our goals, not…Aug 19, 2018Aug 19, 2018
Lea CelesteTrying to Write HappyI could write about the highway sounds, the idling truck sounds, the car alarm sounds, how they somehow don’t disrupt the wind in the…Jul 31, 2018Jul 31, 2018
Lea CelesteIndependenceIn December 2017, I left a three-year long relationship, breaking off an engagement to be with someone else. Because of the way it…Jul 18, 2018Jul 18, 2018
Lea CelesteEver since I could read, I knew I wanted to tell stories.That’s a pure purpose at ten, maybe even at twenty, but now, today, twenty-five years after I read my first story aloud to my baffled…Jun 23, 2018Jun 23, 2018