Unfixed interviews
Unfixed is now sharing interviews with authors and creatives!
While on Substack, I’ve been exposed to a wealth of brilliant writers that explore the messy complexity of the human experience through fiction, non-fiction, essay, and memoir. Reading their work has become an engrossing, educational, and often goosebump-inducing new pastime—from the profoundly attentive Death and Birds essays to a LGBTQ+ serialized novel that always leaves me teary, to weekly laugh-out-loud letters that celebrate and ruminate on mid-life—there is a wealth of wisdom to mine over here. Through this new offering, I will explore unfixed’s meaning and implication in different walks of life—illness, of course, but also relationships, family, aging, socio-economic challenges, trauma and climate change.
Ben Wakeman's Memory of My Shadow
I think the solve for humanity, if there is a solve, is empathy. If there was a way to put an empathy chip in every single human, so many of our problems would go away. - Ben Wakeman - author, musician
Mr. Troy Ford's inclusive and inviting nest
Must the alternative to mindfulness be some kind of zombie existence, a living death? That’s not cool. And frankly, I don’t believe that’s how it works—so often we stumble on beauty, grace and insight in our darkest and ugliest moments. It’s ALL life, every minute of it, for everyone, everywhere.
Chloe's sacred everything
There are times when I'm with someone at the end of their life or I'm with a tiny bird and there is that moment where I'm just like Oh, Oh yeah, I think there's some God here. I love more deeply because of death and birds. -Chloe Hope, end-of-life doula, baby bird carer, author of Death & Birds
Alisa sings the brain electric
You can come to a place in your life where you run out of resilience because you're in such an adversarial relationship with your body. And so it’s about how to recast and reframe and re-narrativize a body that loves you, a body that can speak to you and say, “This one thing that's here is a part of you, and it’s pushing you to be the person you were me…
Mary Tabor's unimaginable lightness of being
By experiencing deeply and profoundly the grief, I floated on this ocean of loss. And I felt saved in my life by that. -Mary Tabor, author (Re)Making Love: A Memoir, The Woman Who Never Cooked, Who by Fire When I read anything by Mary Tabor, I do it slowly. Deliberately. I liken the experience to being deeply engrossed in a 5000 piece, handcrafted jigsaw…
Gail Marlene Schwartz isn't afraid of the hard stuff
I love that imagination gives us access to certain kinds of truth that don't exist in the factual world. There is sometimes way more truth we can explore in fiction than we are able to in our very limited lived experiences. -Gail Marlene Schwartz, author, queer mom, persistent student of collaboration