Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line

Stash

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My mother's hidden Hershey's bars In the refrigerator meat drawer, way in the back under the cheese and lunch meat, I found my mother’s stash of Hershey bars. Three of them. I was probably ten years old, innocently looking for a snack. I gasped. Chocolate—a rare treat in our house. We had chocolate chip cookies sometimes, Oreos if my mother bought them, and she baked cakes, but never solid … [Read more...]

A Poem for February

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from IN FEBRUARY by Ralph J. Mills, Jr. Sudden icy wind slaps at the ashtree's thin frame; a shred of moonhangs above clouds rushing eastover the lake. Inside, I spread a handon the table, my palmopening into slopes and ravinesof a weathered topography. Going nowhere, I turnin the night to reach among memoriesthat come apart, fade,not caring if they're no more than cloudsand belong … [Read more...]

What, Why, How: Ian Tadashi Moore

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What: I’ve written, illustrated and recorded three books for young readers: Zosan, Tamaishi, and Where All the Little Things Live. My first, Zōsan, was funded on Kickstarter in 2015. It included a softcover edition printed offset, a hand printed letterpress edition and an audiobook performance. Tamaishi is my second book for young readers. It follows the story of a little Pebble named … [Read more...]

To our favorite UPS guy

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It’s in the giving We give a Christmas gift card to our regular mailman, and this year decided to give one to our regular UPS delivery guy. He delivered boxes of my first book in 2015. When I told him what the boxes held, he seemed so genuinely excited that I gave him a copy. He smiled as if I’d handed him a hundred bucks and asked if I was going to be famous writer (I told him “We can … [Read more...]

Our Annual Christmas Letter

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Happy Christmas, all! We got a handful of Christmas letters with our cards this year. I feel a pang of guilt that I didn't write a Christmas letter. I usually do. So here's mine, in which I try to balance the humor with the boastful (we get one of those from a special friend every year, and it makes me giggle as much as the funny letters): Bring it on! We are still here, thanks to masks … [Read more...]