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I miss the Star Spangled Banner

The way it used to feel

Nov 28, 2021

I miss the Star Spangled Banner

Nov 28, 2021

Jan Worth-Nelson

Skunk Day

There was a time I imagined great things were about to happen: felt in my bones that something was out there, not far beyond reach, and…

Aug 9, 2021

Skunk Day

Aug 9, 2021

Jan Worth-Nelson

Kodachrome

In all those therapy rooms, I did not tell the whole story

Jul 19, 2021

Kodachrome

Jul 19, 2021

Jan Worth-Nelson

The day after the summer solstice

a poem

Jun 23, 2021

The day after the summer solstice

Jun 23, 2021

Jan Worth-Nelson

On the evangelist’s knee, I consider my Second Amendment rights

Back then an eight-year-old girl not quite at home in a starched cotton dress with a grosgrain sash could climb into the evangelist’s lap…

Jun 19, 2021

On the evangelist’s knee, I consider my Second Amendment rights

Jun 19, 2021

Jan Worth-Nelson

Geezer chronicles: how the day of exploding eggs saved us from gloom

“The mouse is back,” I groused from the kitchen, where a hundred tiny lick marks pocked a block of butter left out overnight. That small…

Jun 7, 2021

Geezer chronicles: how the day of exploding eggs saved us from gloom

Jun 7, 2021

Jan Worth-Nelson

How walking in Flint soothed rage, anxiety and Xanax hunger

In those first days, of course, it all felt so haunted. Even before COVID I was doing a Xanax every night to put up with Trump, and when I…

May 16, 2021

How walking in Flint soothed rage, anxiety and Xanax hunger

May 16, 2021

Jan Worth-Nelson

Jan Worth-Nelson

Jan Worth-Nelson is a former journalist, Peace Corps volunteer, writing teacher and longtime resident of Flint, Michigan

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