by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 26, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
What’s up My kids have me listening to “oldies” lately—you know, songs from the ’80s and ’90s. (Ouch.) I find it remarkable a) how many songs I can still sing along with, word for word, and b) how relevant certain songs still are, even...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 19, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Leaving on a jet plane As I’m writing this, I’m also trying to pack for a family trip across the country to visit the in-laws. I’ve been doing laundry all day, and somehow the pile beside my suitcase keeps getting bigger and bigger. It’s almost...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 12, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
School’s out (for the summer) It’s my kids’ last day of school before summer break, and for the first time in, well, ever, I don’t have a nine-to-five job. They won’t be home all day every day, but I’m looking forward to some long...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 7, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
That was easy. You might or might not have seen that commercial. The office supplies one? The one where at the end a character hits a big red button and a voice booms THAT WAS EASY. That’s how I feel about some conversations we’ve been having lately in our...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 5, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
All together now I went to my second grader’s school play today. It wasn’t much in terms of length—only five minutes—but it told the story of an old man who grew an enormous turnip, a turnip so big that he couldn’t pull it out on his own. So the old...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 5, 2019 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
Welcome to the jungle I may live in the city now, but I grew up steps away from the woods. Our backyard was full of all sorts of charismatic critters—and a bunch of less charismatic ones, too. (Don’t ask about the night I mistook a skunk for our black...
