In the outskirts of Hollywood's lavish terrazzo-paved sidewalks and noisy insomniac street life, lies a small cottage with its own…
We live in socio-cultural contexts increasingly dilated in spatial and temporal parameters in which the concept of “hic et nunc”…
“The Stetson Catera is a high Quality Fur Felt Hat included in the Stetson Gun Club Collection. The Catera has…
I would weigh much less on any other planet or moon, but I’m held by Earth’s gravity to count calories…
In the 50’s, we lived in a three-room apartment on the top floor of a run-down apartment house in Flatbush,…
Teaching and mentoring youth in the era of gentrification and mass incarceration. The children’s section of the library was cold.…
The worst part of picking up a hitchhiker is that you don’t always see the thick black lines of the…
The persistent knocking on the front door thundered through my Fruitvale District house, rattling the windows. Shit. Was it that…
Transplant surgeon Dr. Joshua Mezrich writes in his recently published book, When Death Becomes Life (Harper), about his experience with…
While searching through a plastic bin of my old journals recently I found a forgotten spiral notebook from 1990. I…
How do languages and names play a role in cultural perspectives and power? It would be incredible and strange if…
They will come in with their chins lowered, with their eyes lowered, with their mouths in straight lines of apathy…
The man treats us to a rolling simian strut along the commuter rail platform, lacking only a pack of cigarettes…
Around the age of twelve, death started to seem like the best plan B. If anything went wrong, if ever…
They are back. Raw and bloody, as if freshly torn from me, they hide their eyes and scurry into the…
An ex-Hollywood stunt man visiting La Paz in Baja California Sur insisted, “The locals lied to me. They said that…
As I watch the chock-full, no-seats-for-standby-customers plane I was supposed to be on take off from the window of gate…
Early one summer morning Mama announced, “You must go to the Welfare office.” I stopped eating cornflakes and looked away…
What is it about the complicated legacy of Thomas Edison, inventor, savage businessman, bitter rival that keeps us interested? Perhaps…
It was our five-month anniversary, an accomplishment for us both. I woke up with a pain in my gut that…
The delivery men called; they would be here within a half hour. I remove the fitted sheet from the bed…
In September 1980, about two months before my ninth birthday, my mother left Kathmandu, Nepal, for the United States to…
During our drive to Hull, Cheryl spots six hawks on the interstate in quick succession, perched in low trees in…
I don’t remember my home country; the land of emerald islands and pink dragon fruit is foreign to me. I…
Pictures lay scattered across my living room floor. Memories like bullets penetrate my world, deform my realities, and fragment my…
It was a September Saturday, an airfield in pristine farm-dotted northeast Maryland, just west of the Susquehanna River. I sat…
The "Silent Retreat" sign taped to the front door reminds me to step lighter and slow down, to not disrupt…
Every year during the NBA finals I become nostalgic, but not for the superstars of the past such as Jerry…
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era,…
I’ve done my research, hitched a ride on the internet information highway the on-rounds residents didn’t have time for save…
At the age of ten I found my grandmother dead in the room next to mine. On that sunny summer…
I stare at the knobs on the stovetop. “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10...” Counting to…
In his writing, Louis de Paor is looking for specific life changing moments to write about. Moments like a birth…
I have a good memory for objects. Up until I was thirteen, my grandmother let me borrow her transistor radio…
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