Archive - Open Secrets Magazine

Object-ives #42: Why I Want to Make Lamps of My Prosthetic Limbs

I’ve been traveling with a box of my body parts for two decades, and now I want to make art from them

10 hrs ago • Emily Rapp Black

Why I’m Raising My Daughter in a Sex-Positive Way

On surviving childhood silence around sexual assault and the radical power of giving the next generation the language of autonomy

Jul 9 • Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

Why a 1980s MC Hammer Doll Is a Good Luck Charm with Alrinthea Carter

Finders and Keepers Episode 15 - How childhood play led to a future career as an Emmy-nominated comedy writer, the power of our early pop culture…

Jul 8 • Open Secrets Magazine and Rachel Kramer Bussel

33:26

Why I’ve Come to Hate the Fireworks I Used to Love

I dread the Fourth of July for the sake of my dog and the veterans its noises terrify

Jul 2 • Jason Prokowiew

How to Declutter Books, Clothes, and Everything Else with Decluttering Expert Avery Cundill

Finders and Keepers Episode 14 - How to get started with decluttering, what to do with sentimental items, the ADHD and clutter connection, and more…

Jul 1 • Open Secrets Magazine and Rachel Kramer Bussel

50:46

June 2026

Maybe It’s All Fairy Dust

Watching a toddler and her mom made me question how I parented my son before his death

Jun 29 • Casey Mulligan Walsh

Lessons from knitting

Jun 27 • Alexandra Dane

Object-ives #41: The Little Green Dress

An object, a moment, and the long arc that followed

Jun 26 • Dhana Musil

The Resurgence of Print Magazines with Geezer Magazine Editor Laura LeBleu

Finders and Keepers Episode 13 - Why Generation X needed its own magazine, Geezer, what sets it apart, the allure of analog, and a discount!

Jun 24 • Open Secrets Magazine, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Laura LeBleu

1:11:35

How To Know When You’ve Finished a Piece of Writing

On the mystery of time in the creative process

Jun 24 • Blair Glaser

What My Collection of Hospital Socks from Many Failed IVF Cycles Taught Me About Grief and Luck

Saving my hospital socks during infertility was a balm for my grief. They taught me a lesson about how possessions can define us, and what it means when…

Jun 23 • Blake Turck

Who, Exactly, Are You, Dad?

An excerpt from memoir ‘War Boys’ by Jason Prokowiew

Jun 21 • Jason Prokowiew

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