Even as I breathe, you are always more than simple respiration – sure phrenic nerve and diaphragm, intercostal muscles and thoracic cavity engage the ocean of air you left behind and left to me, left me. I know I am enough, but...
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...
Catering is like the mafia in that it’s difficult to escape. It feels like you’re in it for life and that if you leave, worse things will follow. One gets used to working nights and having the days for all sorts of self-care,...
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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