Ruminate: A Contemplative Magazine Chewing on the Mysteries of Life

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Ruminate Blog

State Line

by Ruminate Magazine June 22, 2019

Brooke Fossey's short story "State Line" appears in Issue No. 51: Consume.

Gender Inclusive Language: Confessions of a Latecomer

by Catherine Hervey June 20, 2019

It had always seemed so simple and self-explanatory to me that “man” had two different meanings, depending on context. It could either mean “man” or “person,” and I didn’t see why I had to change the way I spoke and wrote because higher-up academics had decided this was no longer correct.

Motherless Mothers Feel it All

by Guest Blogger June 18, 2019

The unimaginable: losing a mother young, while I was 25. It happened fast. A stroke. My mother dying on her own birthday, only to have my youngest daughter born that very same day 15 years later.