Author: Kelly Larsen


  • “Remember”Joy Harjo's poem shows how looking back can guide us through the future

    “Remember”
    Joy Harjo’s poem shows how looking back can guide us through the future

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  • What is Green Cremation? (Interview)

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  • “Cloud-Eye”Katherine Gallagher's poem shows that everything is about perspective

    “Cloud-Eye”
    Katherine Gallagher’s poem shows that everything is about perspective

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  • “The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”
    -Helen Hayes

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  • “Epitaph on William Muir”Robert Burns's "Epitaph on William Muir" offers a sweet final farewell

    “Epitaph on William Muir”
    Robert Burns’s “Epitaph on William Muir” offers a sweet final farewell

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  • The “Unity” of Life and Death
    Jay DeFoe’s masterpiece, “The Rose,” brings two opposite concepts together

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  • “Perfection Wasted”The lovely John Updike poem turns a simple idea into so much more

    “Perfection Wasted”
    The lovely John Updike poem turns a simple idea into so much more

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  • “We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”
    -Bryan White

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  • “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” by Delmore SchwartzDelmore Schwartz's famous short story illustrates that it's the future we can change, not the past

    “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” by Delmore Schwartz
    Delmore Schwartz’s famous short story illustrates that it’s the future we can change, not the past

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  • “Remember”Christina Rossetti reminds us that grief need not be permanent

    “Remember”
    Christina Rossetti reminds us that grief need not be permanent

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