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Emily Ruddy

Emily is an Orthodox Christian with an MFA in Creative Writing. She enjoys writing essays about writing essays and currently has about twelve gray hairs. She spends her free time wondering who put them there and strongly suspects it was you. Yes, you.

Articles by Emily Ruddy

Music in the House of Love

While I’m past the point of burning my records and musical books, and I’m no longer having to evacuate coffee shops because “Sympathy for the Devil” is playing, I still…

Battle Above the Clouds

Returning home on any other evening, I might have noticed the gold leaf edges of the icons on the shelf smoldering from the sun through the window.