February 2015 - Heidi Isern

4 Unconventional Ways to Celebrate V-Day, Solo

February 9, 2015
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It’s February. Your city has transformed into a giant lace doily. Subpar chocolates are veiled in red tinfoil and instantly marked up to a 90% margin. Restaurants create prix fixe menus with courses named like a drugstore romance novel. “Cupid’s Cutlet” and “Seduction soufflé” tempt the hopeless romantics into overbooked venues. Smelling a chance for sex, people start pairing up like socks out of the dryer. The 14th arrives with

Why I Write

February 2, 2015
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In the book “Letters to a Young Poet” Rainer Maria Rilke writes, “Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart. Confess to yourself whether you would die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of the night, must I write?” Must