What monsoon can do is give you sweetness in spite of the heavy wet. Even when it rains in Kerala, India, people still ride their colorful scooters, and some even carry a friend or a love along with them. If…
My mom’s mother, my Oma, knitted, crocheted, embroidered, and sewed skillfully. In the years I knew her, she spent evenings watching television news programs with my Opa, always working a project in her hands and lap. My mom never learned…
A husband considers the bucolic couple on the decorative plates he and his wife purchased early in their marriage, and meditates on the work of a rewarding partnership.
Visiting with her family in her mother’s homeland of Armenia, an essayist ventures to a Christian monastery and a pagan temple, searching for her heritage among cross-stones and fish-dragons.
A writer chronicles the life and times of the African clawed frog, from the one her father purchased for her childhood terrarium, to the species’ part in the development of modern pregnancy tests, to her twin sister’s research on the frog’s role in the global chitryd pandemic.
On the long drive to visit a national park, and on the trails and at a river within that park, a poet contemplates a landscape she loves, and in the process takes on cultural appropriation, white privilege, and the gendering of wilderness.
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