This episode on The Personal Element, we take a little different tack. We're talking about two essays this time by writer Ellen Birkett Morris, author of the gorgeous story collection Lost Girls.
The Nine, published in The Fem, addresses trauma over childhood medical issues, expertly weaving in the nursery rhyme Monday's Child.
And the deeply political essay Nobody's Home, first published in The Common, describes a neighborhood protest in front of Mitch McConnell's house in rich detail.
Read by Susan McCabe
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