Archive - Liminal with Jennifer Steil

Sometimes the best news just isn't good enough. My oncologist does her usual trick of dimming my hopes, but travel and work come to the rescue.

22 hrs ago •

December 2024

Christmas Cytotoxins and other gifts

Christmas Eve chemo, some encouraging news, and the one thing your friend with cancer needs from you.

Dec 29, 2024 •

As a reward for getting through the cancer update, I offer you an exclusive, fanciful escapist cream puff of a crime caper story.

Dec 18, 2024 •

Spirit surges, reimagined rituals, and the threat to the gingerbread dinosaurs

Also, French hunters compete with cancer to make my day

Dec 11, 2024 •

These subsurface parts

This week's Liminal features a guest post from my friend and multimedia artist Michiko Theurer about community, clunkiness, and how seemingly disparate…

Dec 4, 2024 •

November 2024

Join my new subscriber chat

A private space for us to converse and connect

Nov 28, 2024 •

What we talk about when we talk about comfort books

What kinds of solace can literature offer in times of peril?

Nov 27, 2024 •

The urge to escape

I understand wanting to defect from the US in the wake of the election. But may I offer a few words of caution?

Nov 20, 2024 •

False starts, fury, and what lies beneath

Plus, a sonnet!

Nov 13, 2024 •

Hope is not a luxury

And it requires that we fight for it until our fingers bleed

Nov 6, 2024 •

October 2024

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