This is one of my favorite views.
This is looking out over Lake Michigan.
In May we will all become visionaries, searching for the big picture.

In 2022 we are declaring how we are emerging from the Pandemic. Whether in art, photography, poetry, short story or essay. We care telling our stories.
If you want to join us send an email to uppcreative@yahoo.com.
Read The Latest Issue of Fill In The Gap

The Pandemic has changed lives. I hear stories every day. In the 2022 Issues of Fill In The Gap we are going to talk about those changes. I want to hear how these past two years have changed your life.
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Remember when you were grown and gone and thought you knew everything? Then you realized there was some stuff you didn’t know, but was too proud to ask anyone who really knew. You survived but realized that there was a lot of things you didn’t know.
Fill In the Gap Issue 2021

In Fill In The Gap Magazine, we are telling the stories of women who have something to say about all that has happened in the past couple of years.
Read Issue 2021

It was the story of how 2020 really went down. Was COVID-19 real? What did the pandemic really cost us? Read our take on the thing. 2021 Issue of Fill In The Gap Magazine

Both of Bessie Smith’s parents died when she was young, because of that she did not get a formal education. To raise money for her family, she and her brother become street performers. Yet she was able to transform her life to become one of the biggest blues singers in the country.
She had to believe she could do it, in order to do it.
Tell yourself you are able. You can do it. Whatever it is.
