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In the movie fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Benjamin experiences the unusual life of someone who is born old and then as time passes, becomes young, in a sort of reverse aging. He starts off life as a baby, but as an old baby, with wrinkles and the joints and body…

Mar 22

Have you heard the one about Sisyphus and his rock? He braces for one final heave as the “pitiless” boulder slips from his grasp and tumbles down Hades’ hill. Again, and again. “So once more,” Odysseus attests of Greek mythology’s Groundhog’s Day, “he had to wrestle with the…

Mar 22

Rain pounds down, relentless. I pack up my suitcase for another long weekend away, away from my current state of adjustment to a new life in a new state. Supposedly, storms bring newness, refreshment, and renewal. Everything still seems to be the same.

Sarah Rennicke-Freymuth

Mar 27

Despite the gentle sound of the waves and the cool evening breeze descending over the lake, I couldn’t help but feel disturbed. The sunset over the Sea of Galilee should have soothed my soul, but my mind wouldn’t stop turning the story over and over.

Nicole T. Walters

Mar 15

My heart sank into my stomach as I stared at the familiar face on my computer screen. Her eyebrows lifted, likely wondering if my feed had frozen again…

Carrie Zeilstra

Mar 14

My drive home from church on a sunny Mother’s Day afternoon changed my life forever. Almost two years have passed since the collision with a high-speed…

Mar 11

I sat in the stark white doctor’s office shivering in my flimsy paper gown. I was perched on the end of the examination table, legs and arms bare. The…

Tatyana Claytor

Mar 7

Thanks for reading The Mudroom! Subscribe for free to receive new posts. Regardless of our personalities, faith, politics, demographics, race, or social…

Tammy Perlmutter

Mar 2

Catch up on Our February Posts! When We’re Empty by Nichole Woo Nichole Woo goes toe-to-toe with winter as she introduces our February theme, "Fill…

Tammy Perlmutter

Feb 28

All beneath the moon will wane. Everything on these shores ebbs and flows like the sea.Thanks for reading The Mudroom! Subscribe for free to receive new…

Feb 27

Nicole T. Walters and Prasanta Verma were both raised in the Southern United States but have ties to South Asia. Nicole fell in love with classical…

Nicole T. Walters

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Feb 24

I follow crumbs at Dusk along the damp Earth. Will tomorrow’s Materialize? I wish I had your Wings, could soar free and See the water, the Moon…

Feb 23

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