DISPLACED Photo Courtesy of Farid Ershad 0:00 / 0:00 Displaced Mid-August last year, when Fatema* answered her cell phone, she heard her sister Shaima’s frantic voice, “I’m at the airport. Can you bring me my passport right now?” Not a simple request. On a normal day, it would have been dangerous for Fatema, who was […]
EINSTEIN ON TIME Photo Courtesy of Taton Moise 0:00 / 0:00 Einstein on Time I can’t pretend to understand what Einstein meant when he said that time was an illusion. In fact, I can’t pretend to understand much of what Einstein said. What I do know is that living during these Covid years has shifted
BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES Photo Courtesy of Hans Isaacson 0:00 / 0:00 Bonfire of the Vanities Twenty years ago, a reporter called me with bizarre news, so bizarre that I instantly wrote him off as a prank caller. He claimed he was from a town out West, maybe in Colorado? I am fuzzy on the
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PIVOTING INTO 2022 0:00 / 0:00 Pivoting into 2022 This past Thanksgiving, all our grandkids were visiting. At one point, three-year-old Bea and four-year-old Hank decided to prepare for an imaginary beach trip. Hank packed several face masks into his yellow leather bag and Bea jammed a bunch into her blue vinyl
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MY BRIEF LIFE OF CRIME Jean De La Bruyere says, “If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.” This was true in my case. My first brush with crime happened when I was eight years old. At the time, we lived across from my school, Smalley Elementary. Weekdays, as
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ESCALATING Photo Courtsey of Derek Story 0:00 / 0:00 Escalating I’m not a fan of escalators. Right after our third son was born, my children and I ventured to a shopping mall in Louisville, Kentucky. We wound up on a steep escalator. I held my hefty infant on one arm and an umbrella stroller in
LIFE IN MY SURREAL WORLD Photo Courtesy of Korpa 0:00 / 0:00 Life in My Surreal World Operating in the real world has never been my strength. I have trouble wrapping my mind around time and space and material objects. There is a certain fluidity to all three for me, a concept which both philosophers
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PERFECTING THE ART OF LOSING 0:00 / 0:00 Perfecting the Art of Losing When it comes to playing sports, the more impossible it is for me to succeed, the more driven I am to try, regardless of how many times I lose and of how badly my ego takes a hit. I’m addicted
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THE FISHA CONFESSION Photo Courtesy of Photoholgic 0:00 / 0:00 The Fish–A Confession At seven years old, our son became obsessed with fishing, not just fishing, but becoming the best fisherman who catches the biggest fish. He read books on the subject and talked about it incessantly. This took us by surprise. We had no
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BETTER LIVING THROUGH DUCT TAPE Photo Courtesy of Jo Szczepanska My Duct Tape essay just appeared in The 30th Anniversary Anthology of the Blue Ridge Writers. Here is a excerpt: The Latin words ductus tapeicus translate to cures all evils. Those words should be displayed on our family crest. Both sides of our family have
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