Corners: Voices on Change (Paperback or Softback)

Every life journey traverses curves and corners. In Corners: Voices on Change, writers find a way through changes. Their literary essays offer honesty, comfort and humor. Tracing their stories helps us to process our own changing lives. Be inspired by thoughtful lives as the writers—

1. Deal with grief and loss
2. Reject antiquated patterns of prejudice and selfishness
3. Get fired
4. Experience disappointment in God
5. Find their voice
6. Say “no”
7. Navigate the ubiquitous anxiety of loving a recovering addict
8. Save themselves from disappearing into marriage or parenthood
9. Discover lynchpins in family and culture
10. Choose a new religion and choose to love within the backlash
11. Learn to love a Trump-voting spouse when it seems a betrayal
12. Recreate a great life when the body, brain, or life circumstance won’t return to the old normal
13. Accept responsibilities, truths, and realities
14. Celebrate differences

These voices don’t prescribe a singular path to self-actualization. That would be a lie. We all face corners. We have to turn. We must make accommodations, or we get stuck clinging to beliefs and ways of life that can no longer sustain us. The beauty in these very human stories is laden with honesty, triumph, humor, resignation, comfort and insight. The cumulative effect of these personal stories is even greater than the sum of the parts. Readers experience the gallant pursuit of managing responses to change. Writers celebrate and lament the past, but don’t cling to it. They find a new normal. They strive. They accept. Read today—for everyone navigating change.

Amy Lou Jenkins is a writer, speaker, nurse, and educator from Wisconsin. Her writing has been honored by the Wisconsin Jade Ring Award, X.J. Kennedy Award for Nonfiction, Florida Review Editor Award in Creative Nonfiction, Flint Hills Review Nonfiction Award, and Literal Latté Annual Essay Award. She is the recipient of a Mesa Refuge Writing Fellowship and has taught writing at Carroll University and in many writing workshops, conferences, and classes including the Iowa Writers Workshops NonfictioNow Conference. Her book of walking essays:Every Natural Fact Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting is the winner of the Ellis / Henderson Award for Outdoor Writing, USA Book Awards, Jade Ring Award, and the Gold Medal winner of the Living Now Outdoor Activities Award.
Her work has appeared in multiple magazines, newspapers, and anthologies including Wisconsin Trails, Wisconsin Academy Review, Flint Hills Review, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Shepherds Express, Florida Review, Inkpot, Earth Island Journal, Generations, Rosebud, Big Apple Parent, MetroParent, Washington Families, Sport Literate, Chicken Soup, Cup of Comfort books, Women on Writing, Wild with Child and The Maternal is Political. Amy Lou lives in the Milwaukee area with her husband and dog. Unless it's so cold it hurts, she'd rather be outside.