Author: Gretchen Filart

Gretchen is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and essayist from the Philippines, where she embraces life while managing bipolar disorder and ADHD. Her confessional pieces unpack the complexities of grief, healing, motherhood, love, and intersections, garnering recognition from the Greg Grummer Poetry Contest and Navigator's Travel Writing Competition.

Short, simple and true

I open a long lost journal randomly to this page: Dec 26, 2008…

Pregnancy Brain

Pregnancy Brain

The past few months, I noticed some irregularities in my overall physical, mental…

Habagat and Bagwis

Habagat and Bagwis

I was sifting through photos in my My Pictures folder when I found…