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Tulip in Snow

4/1/12 10:07am by Chivas Sandage
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The petite lavender flags of our first crocuses popped up as a complete surprise almost one month early in a strangely snowless New England. March in Connecticut usually offers a stark, white landscape, bitter cold, and if you’re lucky, a few warmer days near its end to perhaps begin melting   Read more >

Writing While Walking

3/31/12 6:50pm by Chivas Sandage
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Yesterday, I needed to write. And I needed to walk. Thinking I could write in the late afternoon, after the sun slid behind the mountain, I put on my boots and filled a small pack with water, dried mango, an extra layer and my phone. Heading up the mountain, I couldn’t shake my longing to write.  Read more >

The Other Side of My Life

3/7/12 11:29pm by Chivas Sandage
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   I found it while reading. Laying on my side on the couch, I was reading Cheryl Strayed’s essay in The Sun about her profound, devastating and extensive mourning after her mother’s death from cancer, which she novelized before writing a memoir about what made the novel—and healing her life—possible.  Read more >

St. Valentine, TV, and other Threats to Marriage

2/13/12 11:45pm by Chivas Sandage
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  Pushing a metal cart through automatic doors, I enter the local grocery store resigned to my errand, list in hand, immediately turning toward the natural fool’s…I mean food’s section. Feeling half like an unsuspecting shopper on Candid Camera and half like a Disney princess discovering a magical dimension open into her ordinary life, I’m suddenly wheeling my cart (or it wheels me) toward an elaborate Valentine’s Day display like I’ve never in my life seen. Anywhere.  Read more >

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Full Name
Chivas Sandage
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February 2008
About Me: 

Chivas Sandage is a writer, blogger, teacher, consultant, mom and activist. At csandage.com, she blogs about culture, feminism, parenting, same-sex marriage, writing, politics and more. At writelikeariver.com, she offers a portable writing workshop with free writing prompts and inspiration a` la carte.

Her work is forthcoming in The Hartford Courant, Knockout Magazine, Paradise Found (Levellers Press, ’12) and Drunken Boat, recently appeared in Evergreen Review, Naugatuck River Review and Morning Song: Poems for New Parents (St. Martin’s Press, ’11), and her poem “Driving Home with Radio” received a Top 10 Award from Writers’ Digest. Her poetry and essays have also appeared in Artful Dodge, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Hampshire Life Magazine, Ms. Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, Upstreet, Verse, Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience (Univ. of Iowa Press, ‘06) and Same-Sex Marriage: The Moral and Legal Debate (Prometheus Books, ‘04).   

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