Back before hippies and health nuts discovered cultured soy. Before Portland, Oregon gave the world the Gardenburger, a man from Okayama, Japan opened a tofu shop there in 1911. The United States was filled with racism and fear. But even after the Ohta family was released from WWII internment camps, Ota Tofu never stopped making […]
Aaron Gilbreath
The Strange, Forgotten Life of Viola Roseboro’
In the early 20th century, the passionatt fiction editor at McClure’s magazine mentored Willa Cather and O. Henry, took long walks through Manhattan in place of staying put at a desk, read and smoked cigarettes on park benches in all kinds of weather. She was, as this author writes, “a talent whisperer and literary booster,” […]
They Fell In Love Helping Drug Users. But Fear Kept Him From Helping Himself
Many obstacles exist for people on parole who want medication-assisted opioid treatment. One obstacle is how much they trust their parole officer. It can cost people their lives.
How a Hot $100 Million Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight
“The untold story of how Homepolish’s extremely Instagrammable house of cards came tumbling down.”
I Have No Idea What You Corporate People Are Talking About
Before I can parallel-path that project and route it back to you, you’ll need to explain what you’re asking in actual English, please.
After the Honeymoon Phase
For two childhood friends, Lifetime movies functioned as windows into their peers’ private lives, and served as fables with morals to live by. But while one friend treated the films as cautionary tales, the other helped create the shows’ tumultuous romantic situations in her own life – at least for a little while.
What Charles Portis Taught Us
Portis published five novels during his lifetime, but their depth and singular wit earned the author a devoted following. One fan examines why.
Novelist Charles Portis Was a True Original
Every Portis fan has a different favorite passage from his novels, but they agree on one thing: no one wrote like Portis.
Garbage Language: Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
Let’s drop a pin in this and take it off-line so we can futureproof the intiative with these key learnings and co-create innovative win-wins that require an omni-channel push but no critical ask. Actually, let’s not.
When It’s Time to Tell
The silence that once protected one woman from memories of her abusive ex-boyfriend and further abuse was now the silence she needed to free herself from.
