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First Person Singular

Original personal essays.

What a Qigong Grandmaster, Meghan Trainor, and a pandemic pity party taught me.

Marika Páez Wiesen

Mar 22

Looking back at journal entries he wrote as a love-lorn closeted teen, Mike Albo finds kinship with a needy AI chatbot.

Mar 8

Brooke Siem navigates her way through the undulations of antidepressant withdrawal and coral reefs.

Mar 1

In the midst of a pandemic-year DIY home renovation as a single mom, Kate Vieira wonders, what makes a house a home?

Feb 1

For Kasey Payette, queer heartbreak leads to an investigation of burial practices, historical erasure, and what details of our lives will outlast us.

Jan 18

In looking back on a marriage and years of physical agony, Liz Iverson decodes her own mind-body connection.

Dec 28, 2022

Caitlin Bitzegaio longs for messages from her late mother—but will only trust them if they arrive unsolicited.

Caitlin Bitzegaio

Dec 14, 2022

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