After the middle-aged woman hands me my three food items, she asks if I want anything else. Being in one of those moods, I answer, “Yes! Can you tell me the meaning of life?” Stone-faced, she responds, “Excuse me… would you...
It was 1958 and Cardinal Roncalli of Venice had just been selected as Pope John XXIII by the College of Cardinals. I was sitting in my fourth-grade class with 62 other nine year olds in Notre Dame Grammar School. In today’s era...
After 15 years I’ve come back to paint and eat lunch with Mr. B and his cancer. The house, the neighborhood, locked in time. I know I’ve changed, now looking at thirty. He blinks at me, standing in the doorway in his robe,...
Ethan Shan is a high school student who has been passionate about drawing since he could...
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have
– James Baldwin
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