This Art Gym was inspired by Anne Helen Petersen’s Substack naming portals as the big changes that we are periodically pushed into or pulled through in our lives. Petersen is particularly interested in women’s portal experience around mid-life — what if we reframed the “mid-life crisis,” which is often tied …
This activity was offered to Art Gym by Kendell on January 4, 2026. It is a kind of new year’s / reflection point writing activity that uses the tools of fiction to find new angles on our experiences, pulling us out of typical journaling exercises and into a deeper, more …
All we get is their eyes. They are brown, green, blue. They are cloudy and gruff or clear and clean and none of them is different from the others.Theirs is a call to be undifferent from the others — I mean,indifferent to the others. He pulls fleece up over his …
