Trust Your Voice – Speak Your Truth by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – From the wisdom of Soulspeak Asheville, young poets considered the question: “What does…
Dreading Deadlines
Business of Art by Wendy H. Outland Many of us are intimidated by deadlines! For me, it began several years ago when my business started to gain momentum. Between responding…
Gratitude is a Healing Choice
by Bill Walz – “Every day we touch what is wrong, and as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to…
We Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
– A Miracle at Birth – by Max Hammonds, MD – How does a fetus breathe? Do its lungs work? How does it get oxygen? Are the kidneys functioning? Where…
A Sense of Weightlessness
And the Special in the Everyday by Greg Vineyard – I recently tore myself away from re-watching the Star Wars series (because I needed some power converters!) to join friends…
Spinning Discs October 2015
by James Cassara – In order to whittle down the ever growing stack of discs, I’ll be keeping my reviews to around 200 words, which is much harder than it…
The Poets Voice: October 2015
Gratitude by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – I celebrated a BIG birthday in August. My favorite gift was a gratitude journal. Page after page is filled…
A Tomato Is Not a Bag of Nutrients
by Max Hammonds, MD – “Everyone knows that our soils are more and more depleted.” “The food that we grow is no longer nutritious. Either we must build up our…
A Wave on the Ocean
by Bill Walz – A wave on the ocean has a beginning and an end, a birth and a death. But the wave is empty. The wave is full of…