The Power of Writing in Threes: The Triptych
The Power of Three Writing a triptych, or an essay consisting of three parts, allows the writer to explore a topic in a layered form. Originally from the Greek word triptychos, meaning three folds, the triptych became popular with visual artists in the Middle Ages. Like the artist presenting three separate panels as a singular...
Coming of Age in the Garden of Eden, Pennsylvania
StemPlucked from the bath, jammies on, clean-smelling flannel, I come into the living room where my grandmother and aunt and mother and father and the strange woman we know as Dr. Bunny, who will later turn out to have been my aunt’s lover, sit smoking in the yellow after-dinner light. Kiss Grandma goodnight, I am...