It is all glory…
Until it is not and that
Friends is life’s story.
It is all glory…
Until it is not and that
Friends is life’s story.
Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.




I began eating independently at a very young age, I’m told. Even though half the food ended up on the floor, I still insisted, by


The first time I saw the words “ms. chintha is a bitch” inked on to walls, I was 29 years old. I had been teaching for a mere four years, but felt so veteran already because I had stopped crying when fights happened in or near my classroom among students. Up until my fourth year, I blamed myself for not creating a safe enough space for my students and that’s why they began fighting.
In one breath, she pressed her past and present flat between the pages of a seedling desire to stand steady on the balance beam of