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The Buddy System
There is nothing quite like it. Surfing is a way of being connected to a deeper deep, an older old.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Quotes, Story
Thumbing a Ride: What I Learned from Siskel and Ebert
Dipti S. Barot pays homage to the two irreplaceable voices who informed her love of good movies.
Posted inNonfiction
Communiqué from an Exurban Satellite Clinic of a Cancer Pavilion Named after a Financier
Anne Boyer encounters a familiar system — that grand and easy-to-mistake-for-everything system — at the cancer pavilion.
Posted inUncategorized
Switch at Birth — But How?
Two women gave birth on the same day in a place called Come By Chance. Half a century later, their children made a shocking discovery.
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Appetites
“On eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer, and pandemics.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
‘I Believe in Love’: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Final Year, In Her Own Words
Memoirist Elizabeth Wurtzel was working on this, her final personal essay, when she passed away on January 7th, 2020 from metastatic breast cancer. In the piece she reveals that as her health was declining, her marriage was unraveling, and that she was still wrestling with new information her mother finally revealed a couple of years […]
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Unapologetic Women, Writing
The Reality of Being Sick and Alone
Diagnosed with breast cancer, Anne Boyer discusses the treatment that is poisoning her body.
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Podcasts, Writing
Trapped in Limbo Down Under
In Australia, some 30,000 people live in a state of legal uncertainty crafted by politicians.
