by Natalie Jones | Dec 7, 2020 | Letter from the Editor, Winter 2021
I spent summer 2019 in the United Kingdom; roaming through green fields, eating fish and chips, and feeling alive amid European culture. I spent summer 2020 in my house, self-isolating from family and friends. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the travel...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 9, 2020 | Letter from the Editor, Winter 2020
Honeysuckle. That was all I could smell as I strolled through the backwoods of northern Alabama. I took in the faint smell that left an even fainter taste in my mouth. Something about the copacetic atmosphere filled me with perspective and appreciation for the natural...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 25, 2019 | Fall 2019, Letter from the Editor
If you had asked me when I was younger what my favorite place in the world was, I would have told you Rock Mill Park. It was a small park no more than three miles from my house with a quaint pavilion and cement trails that wound through the woods. It was somewhere I...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 3, 2019 | Letter from the Editor, Winter 2019
I grew up in Salem, Utah, which installed its first traffic light when I was a junior in high school. When you walk into the post office, you are greeted by name. And, on the first Saturday in August, the city feeds everyone breakfast. While there is a certain...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 13, 2018 | Fall 2018, Letter from the Editor
He sat defeated, slumped over with gashes all across his face. His ear was swollen, his nose broken, his fight lost. As I walked into the room, his sightless eyes met mine. I had seen the sculpture Seated Boxer in pictures and in textbooks; I had studied its form, its...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 8, 2018 | Letter from the Editor, Winter 2018
“So, can you come with us in two weeks?” my uncle asked on the other end of the phone. I paused and considered the implications of skipping the first week of school to go on my uncle’s company cruise to help with my four cousins. My initial instinct was to say...
