by Margie Lukas | Sep 2, 2025 | Blog
A Modern Fairy Tale For Adults Is How I’d Classify Remarkably Bright Creatures We call ourselves the Edgy Eves. (Every self-respecting book club needs a solid name.) Our last book was Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. _ _ _ A modern fairy...
by Margie Lukas | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog, Farthest House
2019 marks 100 years since Red Summer and the lynching and killing of hundreds of blacks across the county. Willie Brown was lynched in my hometown, Omaha, on Sept 28, 1919. A mob of nearly 10,000, a horde of angry and racist men stormed the courthouse. Breaking...
by Margie Lukas | Jun 14, 2019 | Blog, Farthest House
Excerpts “Farthest House” h Nourish the Soul I was seventeen when my savior arrived in the form.. h Thoughts Are Things People often ask me if I think those words are true… h The Lynching of Willie Brown 2019 marks 100 years since Red Summer and the lynching and...
by Margie Lukas | May 24, 2019 | Blog
Tyrants Remain Humans Reduced to Labels A label is an idea. A man or a woman reduced to a label… Losing Belief in Ourselves Today by the age of ten, girls are already… Touched by the Mystical Six years have passed. Here’s a snippet of the...
by Margie Lukas | May 10, 2019 | Blog
“Sealskin to Her Selkie,” is a wonderful poem by KT Herr. It’s about shutting ourselves away, regretting choices we’ve made, and losing the memory of “how to wake a body/to its home’s emphatic music.” River People: This is an excellent read. So well written it makes...
