The house I’ve lived in with my family for the past two years is spacious and newly renovated. The comforts are numerous, the company good. But in the spring of ...
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“I prayed the night before my cancer diagnosis, and then I prayed again the night after. It was during the darkness of those long months in hospital—robbed of my vitality, ...
Kevin Baker considers the ways in which Facebook acts as a memory database – and ponders what this means for the human brain. Continue Reading Why Facebook is ...
Dr. James Holden considers the irresistable pull of Christmas’s sleigh bell-punctuated nostalgia. Continue Reading On Nostalgia: The Music of Christmas Past and Present
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Brent van Staalduinen explores the ramifications of discovering three of his students with hashish in Kuwait, a conservative Muslim country that still has the death penalty for trafficking. ...
Tatyana Movshevich recalls growing up in chemical-ravaged Dzerzhinsk, Russia, and the creative wasteland that exists there. Continue Reading I Am From Dzerzhinsk
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“Something told me that the lump on my arm wasn’t to be ignored. Rubbing my finger across the lump, I was certain there was a ball of something under my ...
A personal tribute to Nelson Mandela and his legacy. Continue Reading Moved by Mandela: a Tribute on his 95th Birthday
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I tried so hard to fit in. Any time I would talk about pictures, from prom or any other event, I always made sure to mention the fact that I ...
At that moment, the power was switched off; quite typical of Nigeria, where there has never been a constant power supply. The dining room became dark. I was suspicious of ...
Goats make perfect pets, or so I was told. About eight months ago, I decided I wanted one. Nathan was at work. He’s the adult in the house, who asks ...
They stare. Stare at the new guy in the cheap suit. Thirty two Glaswegian teenagers with gelled hair and fake tan, stinking of Lynx, chewing gum and fiddling with phones. ...
