Madeline Knopf

Sometimes I think about the nights in my childhood when I couldn’t sleep. When it was so warm and the crickets were screaming. It must have been summer, but my...

I go to family dinners often. I remember lots from my childhood, too. My grandma always has her nails painted red, it’s her favorite color. At one of these dinners...

I don’t keep clocks in my house. When I was thirteen, I began to have anxiety attacks. This was after my first dog died. I was wearing a silver, glitter...

I’ve struggled to define and to find creativity. I was never the skilled artist or the crafty person. My homemade birthday cards included scribbly stick figures in blue ballpoint pens...