Archive - Holly Starley's Rolling Desk

May we raise up the voices being silenced. May we remember who we are, who we belong to, and what home means.

Mar 2 •

February 2025

January 2025

5 o'Clock Somewhere by Narina Exelby

"Women in the village are cooking and washing dishes," High Atlas Mountains. "The light is fading fast and I am mirrored in the glass," Lerwick…

Jan 29 •

5 o'Clock Somewhere #4

Two countries, two writers, one shared moment. This edition: the Shetland Islands, and Washington

Published on Travel: NE Where • Jan 26

Go Into the Forest and Come Out Completely Different

“You were annoyed you had a heart attack?” “Yeah,” he confirms. “So I was giving it the middle finger by doing that.”

Jan 19 •

To Stretching, to What Stretches Us

I was in the desert alone the first time it happened. So this is how I go out, I thought (hyperbolically, but still).

Jan 12 •

Everything Old Is New Year Again

At the northern tip of our planet, the sun rises on a new year just as earth’s axis has tilted as far from the sun as it will. Once, I looked down on a…

Jan 5 •

December 2024

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