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Cerulean
Is that what love is, a thought that your mind made up with its chemicals and its hokum and its voodoo magic? Continue Reading Cerulean
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Needle-Junkie Debt
I always come back. Continue Reading Needle-Junkie Debt
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Chasing Sakura: 05. Ceremony
The first time we saw Gion was in the evening, during a light rain. And what a seductive show it put on. The pink sun diminished between buildings seemingly held ...
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From Dust and Needles – A Memoir
Excerpts from a memoir
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Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of Many Faces. Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
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Reading Words, Hearing Music
Focusing particularly on the words of Paul McCartney and John Lennnon, Frank Meola’s essay “Reading Words, Hearing Music” is about song lyrics and poetry and the difference between the two. ...
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Chasing Sakura: 02. Scramble
Read part one of this series here. Due to the back-and-forth nature of our trip, we gave ourselves only two days in Tokyo before we were scheduled to leave it. ...
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The Broadway 36
The terminal was just a few blocks from our apartment. Often we were the first people on the bus and had it all to ourselves. These were days in the ...
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Jo Ann Robinson
The youngest of twelve children, Jo Ann Robinson was born in Culloden, Georgia. She was the first college graduate in her family, and later earned a master’s degree. In 1949, ...
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South Korea is what North Korea is not, or is it more complex?
As a young child, I recall tracking the aeroplane on the inflight map as it move towards Seoul Incheon International Airport, yet was always puzzled by what that country above ...
Chasing Sakura: 01. Occidentals
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What if God Changes His Mind?
I grew up in North Carolina and Virginia into a religious family. This seems like a redundant statement. People in the south are religious. That’s just how everyone is. God ...
Rescue Me
“I’m not an actress. Hello out there—” rapping my knuckles on my head “—anybody listening? I dropped out of acting school. Can you hear me?”
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Animal
A personal essay on the love of dogs, horses, birds, goats, dogs … and of all animals. Continue Reading Animal
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Night on the Hill
Any time I found trouble as a teenager, which happened frequently, my mother warned me that I would wind up like her older sister, my Aunt Beverly.
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Litro #162: Literary Highlife | The Ferrymen
Taxicabs are everywhere in Ghana, and replete in the cities, the drivers play an indispensable role in Ghanaian society, and in our cities that have no regular transport services, this ...
Litro # 160: Changes | Remembrance
Memories make us…
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Litro # 160: Changes | Growing Younger
The role of the bicycle in personal and political change. Continue Reading Litro # 160: Changes | Growing Younger
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The Girlfriend Experience
Leonard would find men online and then set up a date with whichever girl met that particular man’s preferences. Then Leonard and the girl would split the payment. Was it ...
Dust-free
No. That won’t work. A watch will make me think of time and time reminds me of death and death means funerals and at funerals there is always some guy standing ...