We’re excited to share that Mission Belonging will be part of the 2025 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC)—a powerful movement of generosity that connects federal employees, retirees, and military personnel with causes they care about. This fall, you’ll find us in the...
“Writing became my palette, my lifeline, when the weight of my story became too heavy to carry alone.” I used to think resilience was invisible—a quiet, colorless force that held me together when everything else was falling apart. But I’ve come to realize...
What device do you use tokeep your vice in a vice?Creativity forges the keys to release us from these shackles. This instrument can also break locks. Every time I try and break free, I try & find moments to capture, the goal is to paint a polaroid of time. A...
Confiding to the impartial, sympathetic page paved the way for me to accept myself and finally reveal to my friends and family who I really am and begin to live my best honest life. I write. I write because I want to write; I write because I need to write. I write...
Editor's Preface In this hybrid essay, Susan Niemi writes with specificity, clarity, and the clear eye of a survivor who knows how much work it takes to forge a path forward again and again. Studded with lines of her own poetry, this essay is a meditation on...
