Kelly Kathleen Ferguson is the author of My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself (Press 53, 2011). Her work has appeared in mental_floss magazine, Poets & Writers, The Gettysburg Review, and Brevity, among other publications. She has an MFA from the University of Montana and is in pursuit of a PhD in creative nonfiction at Ohio University.Experiments in Living Chemistry
The first morning after my last day of fifth grade, Mom informed me that my summer vacation and girlhood were over. Me: Reading A Wrinkle in Time in my room, hoping to pull a Meg Murry and tesseract to another planet. Mom (with a cursory knock while opening the door): “Great news!...
