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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

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

Kodachrome

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

Jul 19, 2021

Kodachrome

Jul 19, 2021

The day after the summer solstice

a poem

Jun 23, 2021

The day after the summer solstice

Jun 23, 2021

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

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

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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