Author Archives: Sandra Yeaman

Readers Write-Swimming

Each month, The Sun magazine offers fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and photos in a black-and-white format without advertising. Each issue includes provocative ideas from people of science, religion, philosophy, the arts, or a combination. Each issue also includes Readers Write, a feature compiling nonfiction submissions from the magazine’s readers on an intentionally broad topic. Occasionally I submitContinue reading “Readers Write-Swimming”

Homework: Law of Balance

A prompt from 13 Steps to Awakening: “Balance” (CC BY-NC 2.0) Photo by  martin.davidsson  Homework Find all the areas in your life that are out of balance where you paid less than what you received (and not just in terms of money). Now find the duality that they are a part of to figure out what you need toContinue reading “Homework: Law of Balance”

Readers Write-First Love

Each month, The Sun magazine offers fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and photos in a black-and-white format without advertising. Each issue includes provocative ideas from people of science, religion, philosophy, the arts, or a combination. Each issue also includes Readers Write, a feature compiling nonfiction submissions from the magazine’s readers on an intentionally broad topic. Occasionally I submitContinue reading “Readers Write-First Love”

Eight-Week Challenge: Week Three Results

Week three. I knew things would change. Time for my report. As a reminder, here are my goals for the eight-week challenge: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table (changed to read an average of five magazines each week from theContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Week Three Results”

Book Review: The Ivory Caribou

Recently widowed Anne O’Malley undertakes genealogical research into her father-in-law’s past as a way to remain connected to her deceased husband, but she discovers instead an extended Inuit family eager for her to join them for a future that connects her with the past at the same time as it beckons her forward into a new life.Continue reading “Book Review: The Ivory Caribou”

Book Review: The Emigrants

Eight adults, each for their own reasons, reach the point they feel abandoning their homes in Sweden in favor of enduring a treacherous sea voyage to New York is the only way to find a dignified life for themselves and their eight children. The sixteen featured emigrants joined more than sixty other courageous souls onContinue reading “Book Review: The Emigrants”

Eight-Week Challenge: Week Two Results

Week two–done! Time for my report. As a reminder, here are my goals for the eight-week challenge: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table, and write at least 500 words per day for at least five days each week. WhatContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Week Two Results”

Readers Write-The Sofa

Each month, The Sun magazine offers fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and photos in a black-and-white format without advertising. Each issue includes provocative ideas from people of science, religion, philosophy, the arts, or a combination. Each issue also includes Readers Write, a feature compiling nonfiction submissions from the magazine’s readers on an intentionally broad topic. Occasionally I submitContinue reading “Readers Write-The Sofa”