Rebecca D. Martin

Rebecca D. Martin's essays have been published in Proximity Magazine, Art House America, and Relief Journal, among others, and she is a contributing writer at Makes You Mom. She hails from Georgia, bu

Certain Tides

Aug 11, 2014 4 min read Humanity

This piece was originally published in Equals Volume 1: Exploration in Fall 2013. They built against sound advice, or so the story goes. The vulnerable stretch of shore was too changeable for development.

Watching for Trains

Feb 17, 2014 5 min read Humanity

The first train station in Lynchburg, Virginia, was built in the 1850s, but the tracks were laid before that. They shipped – sometimes folks, sometimes freight – straight past here from New York to Louisiana

Permission to Not Talk

Oct 11, 2013 6 min read

I was such a good secretary. Just enough Myers Briggs “I” and “P” to synthesize ideas and data, not so much OCD that I couldn’t stop mid-project to talk with a visitor.

In Praise of Nursery Tale Anthropomorphism

May 20, 2013 5 min read Literature

Animal stories are the stuff of an imaginative child’s delight: Kenneth Grahame’s Ratty and Mole, C.S. Lewis’s beaver family, Beatrix Potter’s Benjamin Bunny. In these stories, impossibility is

Try Again: On Follow-up Attempts

Feb 25, 2013 4 min read Literature Rowling

When J.K. Rowling published her latest novel, The Casual Vacancy, back in September, many of her devoted readers wanted to know where the magic—overt or otherwise—had gone. The expectation was