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New in Nature: Becki Yetman

By Becki Yetman My professional role as a journey guide for cancer patients has helped me realize we shouldn’t leave things unsaid. I spend time with family members who have lost their person, and the thing they struggle with most is that they didn’t say certain things. I don’t want to have those regrets. I […]
10 months ago

New in Nature: Shu-Chuan Wang-McGrath

 By Shu-Chuan Wang-McGrath Throughout the past 27 years, I have moved back and forth between Taiwan and the United States, pursuing education in the U.S. and a teaching career in Taiwan. Taiwan has always been deeply meaningful to me — it is where my family lives, where my faith community is rooted and where much […]
10 months ago

New in Nature: Aaron Eisenhauer

By Aaron Eisenhauer When my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, her oncologist didn’t know how much time she had, but he was clear that it was limited. She spent a year in treatment, and in January 2022, she died. I spent that intervening year clinging to a manufactured hope that she would […]
10 months ago

Grandmothering: How my granddaughter teaches me to see the world anew

By Jane Pohlman “First, I was Mom … now, I’m Grandma.” These are the words displayed on a T-shirt I bought when I learned I would become Grandma for the first time. I wear that shirt proudly. Both titles mean the world to me. First, I was Mom: I am the mother of three beautiful […]
10 months ago

from the editor Fall 2024: Body

Our bodies are vessels that are very good. They mediate our experiences with the world and are truly awe-inspiring in what they can do — so nuanced, so detailed, so intentionally relational. But too often, this wonder and awe isn’t what women experience in relation to our bodies, and especially in regards to the most […]
1 year ago

Lack of Women in Medical Studies Creates Barriers to Healing

Often throughout history, women’s pain has either been dismissed, found to have an unknown cause, or labeled by the medical system as hysteria or mental illness. This is in part due to cultural taboos that surround talking about women’s bodies and in part due to our health care system’s historical bias against women. Historically, male […]
1 year ago

From the Editor Summer 2024: Wonder

I think we can get used to it, being alive. We go through our day-to-day and hardly notice it, the smell of the coffee as we pour water over ground-up beans, the touching of our feet to concrete, to grass, to floor, the singing of the bird in the tree while we taste the sweet […]
2 years ago

Michelle Mia Antallan: What have you been thinking lately?

Thank you for being the first early inspiration in my life; being the first grandchild allowed me to have all the perks (and favoritism, I think) to learn from you. I am very far away from home and you are getting older; I can’t stop thinking about having fears of you getting sick or something […]
2 years ago

Johniqua Fort: What have you been thinking about lately?

A timeless letter from your mama … I’ve started this letter over and over countless times. Few times on paper, several times in my head. A simple question of, “What is something you’ve been thinking about lately?” turns out to be not so simple, honestly, because I am always thinking about everything. If I had […]
2 years ago