From the Editor

Decisions and Revisions by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor-in-Chief

NonFiction

Something Bigger Than Ourselves by Jeanne Blum Lesinski 🎧

The Weekly Honk and Wave by Mary Zelinka 🎧

Chiaroscuro: Two Essays by Miriam Bat-Ami 🎧
“Tohu Vavohu (Formless and Void)” and “The Naked Sycamore”

My Apartment by Noelle Sterne 🎧

Millionaire by Aviva Goldstein 🎧

Roller Girl by JoAnn Moran 🎧

Searching for Me by Maureen Bridget Rabotin 🎧

Fiction

Drift by Babette Gallard 🎧

The Bread Knife by Julia MacDonnell 🎧

I Blame the Mother by Judith Pancoast 🎧

Brenda in ’85 by Nancy K. Martin 🎧

Confrontations: Two Short Stories by Mary Donahue Brown 🎧
“The Girl on the Couch” and “An Early Spring”

Me Time by Jane Hertenstein 🎧

Tribute

Gloria Steinem, Forever Resonant: A Tribute from the Persimmon Tree Community

The Creative Life

Why Do I Write? by Marcia Aldrich 🎧

The Power of a Story by Wendy Swift 🎧

On the Luxury of Choice by Priscilla Riggle 🎧

What to Expect from a Drawing Class by Laura Carraro 🎧

Character Assassination: A Short Story by Pat Jablonski 🎧

Poetry

This Shared World: Vievee Francis Talking Poetry and Reading Her Poems by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

Art

The Dialectical Art of Grace Graupe-Pillard: An Update by Greta Berman, Art Editor

Short Takes

The Creative Spark
Introduction by Linda Barrett Osborne, Short Takes Editor
Prose and Poetry by Susan Anthony-Tolbert, Laura Blatt, Sharon Brandon, Celestine Candida, Samantha Coomber, Suzanna de Baca, Janice Dilbeck, Terri Glass, Mati Gomoll, Patricia McKowen Kane, Enid Jones, Sandy S. Lish, Marge MacKeith, Beth MacLeod, Carol Middleton, Ellen Reichman, Barbara A Rouillard, Norie Sanchez, Stephanie Shafran, Lisa Trudel
Art by Kate Peper

Persimmon Tree Forum

The Power of Choice: Our Readers Comment
Introduction by Margaret Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Entries by Denise Beck-Clark, Sandy Benson, Helen Collins Sitler, Jacqueline Courteau, Marie Daniely, Patricia Dirlam, Bertha Fernandes, Darcy Grabenstein, Julia Griffin, Marijo Grogan, Jane Herschlag, Mary Hiland, Lenette Howard, Patricia Jablonski, Patrice LoCicero, Susan Long, Sandy Reavey, Ellen Reichman, Claire Reutter, Leslie Rourke, Terri Sutton, Linda Thompson, Deborah W.
Art by Linda Rathkopf

Back of the Book

Everything Old is New Again by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Illustrations by Debbie Chance Ables, Miriam Bat-Ami, Paula Bernstein, Sally Buffington [2], Darlene Detienne, E.E. King, Cindy Lamar, Berta Morgan, Sandy Morris, Kate Peper, Jennifer Pratt-Walter [2], Maureen Bridget Rabotin, Linda Rathkopf [2], Alice Sherman Simpson, Cynthia Storrs, Kari Uhlman
Edited by Carrie Stein and Jean Zorn