Dan Szczesny 1/1/21 Dan Szczesny 1/1/21

The Madeleine Effect

Our first Transcendental Dad column - A Warm Kitchen, a Hungry Child, and the Mystery of Food Memory

Mark Shelley 6/24/20 Mark Shelley 6/24/20

Dear Internet 5: Covering Up the Old Tattoos

This week, score one for the doc.

M.K. Ciley 6/23/20 M.K. Ciley 6/23/20

Walk in the Park

As an aged 22-year-old visits an old friend, everything has changed but the park.

Amelia Schwabe 6/19/20 Amelia Schwabe 6/19/20

I Was a Peach Blossom Baby

And I haven't been easy to raise.

Michael Higgins 6/16/20 Michael Higgins 6/16/20

Naming the Dragon

When was the last time you were able to pull a lawn chair out on the grass at night and watch for shooting stars, or hunt the fae in your imaginations?

Mark Shelley 6/10/20 Mark Shelley 6/10/20

Dear Internet 3: What's Rational?

What's the sensible response to lacking in consequence?

Ross Streitburger 6/8/20 Ross Streitburger 6/8/20

Somebody Has to Lose

Do you believe in miracles?

M/U Staff 5/29/20 M/U Staff 5/29/20

The Most Dashing Man in the World Has Been Framed: A M/U Film Chat

The M/U Film Soiree gathers on Saul Bass' birthday to watch North by Northwest

Matei Alexandru 5/28/20 Matei Alexandru 5/28/20

A Game at Sundown

Thanks to my nursing home roommate, I felt young again - and death disappeared.

Ali Kreutz 5/22/20 Ali Kreutz 5/22/20

Spring Division

A new poem from the inestimable Ali Kreutz

William Mullen 5/18/20 William Mullen 5/18/20

Guerilla Golfing, Dr. Ron, and the Killer Mimosa

He's a cannabis bootlegger, a cannabis scientist...and plays the wildest golf game you've ever imagined

Sam Johnson 5/14/20 Sam Johnson 5/14/20

To Burn Clean

With an outlaw father on the brink of death, Johnny ponders the way the worm has turned - and stretches

Carly Grace Abrahams-Dematte 5/12/20 Carly Grace Abrahams-Dematte 5/12/20

Like Raisins on the Vine

As the pastoral scene unfolds, one world weaves into the other, and there's magic in the pomegranate seeds

M/U Staff 5/11/20 M/U Staff 5/11/20

BOOK RELEASE: You & Me Available for Preorder

Dan Szczesny's new book of essays now available from Hobblebush Books

Jared Radke 5/8/20 Jared Radke 5/8/20

Pony Express

Jared Radke returns, late with the rent, waiting on a package

Jennifer Tirrell 5/7/20 Jennifer Tirrell 5/7/20

Acorn

An ode to a pony - and an ode to the way the living things with which we share creation, two-legged or four, shape our lives

M/U Staff 5/5/20 M/U Staff 5/5/20

And There Was Silence in Heaven: A M/U Film Chat

The M/U Film Soiree gathers together to chat through The Seventh Seal, perhaps the best plague film of all time

Ali Kreutz 5/1/20 Ali Kreutz 5/1/20

Measure of a Man

In only our third-ever poem, Ali Kreutz moves us in memoriam.

William Mullen 4/29/20 William Mullen 4/29/20

Captain Rob and the Sleepy Alligator: A Riverine Journey on Florida’s Gulf Coast

This would make for a great time to have a Deep Florida Adventure with the gators.

M/U Staff 4/27/20 M/U Staff 4/27/20

We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day: A New M/U Film Chat

The M/U Film Soiree gets together online to watch Kubrick's 1964 classic Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb