“A Curious Migration”: on virtue and the survival of the monarch butterfly. By Mary Quade.

“Ghosts of the Walldogs,” on advertising and our selves. By Michael Griffith.

What fading…

“The Museum of Teeth,” an incomplete collection. Essay by Emily Woodworth.

“Over the years I have…

“Seek and Hide Again”: an essay on the adult dating years. By Lise Haines.

One woman dips into the…

“We Were Working Moms.” Essay by Colleen Curran.

“Then we picked it up again. To begin the elaborate…

“Another Planet of Its Own,” an essay by Katharine Haake.

The astral is the personal.

“Gorbachev’s Birthmark,” a poem by Jonathan Fink.

“Chicken Train,” a poem by Terry Minchow-Proffitt.

“This face reflected back is not me…”

Two Poems by Kip Zegers: “The Ride in” and “Another Thing My Father Did.”

“Blue Pearl,” by Peter Stine.

Anatomy of a Chicago Zen sesshin.