“My death occurred while playing beer-league hockey at the Winterhawks Skating Center in Beaverton, Oregon.”
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Tasting Indian Creek
“We let the sauce simmer until it is thick. The apparition of my grandmother lingers awhile before it disappears.”
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What We Remember: A Reading List on Archives
Why do we keep what we keep — and who decides? An archivist digs and collects longreads on how objects and materials shape public memory.
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From TED To PERNOCTATED, Scrabble’s Best Player Knows No Limits
“Nigel is a reminder of the unknown limits of human performance and the mysteries of the human mind.”
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Parting the Waters
“Generations of family memories wash away in Silver Falls.”
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The Universe, T-Swift, and This Week’s Top 5
“Growing up it was drilled in me that no word should touch the ground. Words are to be revered no matter what those words might mean. Once my Nana insisted my entire room be reorganized because my bookshelf was stationed such that when I went to bed the backs of my feet faced the books […]
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Odd Birds
“In an era where gender identity and sexual orientation can get you a beating by bullies or shot dead in a nightclub, writer Shane Mitchell celebrates otherness — and a great-aunt who lived her life with courage and gusto.”
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Living Memory
“Who, then, are the chroniclers of Black lives in the pandemic?”
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Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife
“The frame changes everything.”
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My Brain Doesn’t Picture Things
“How can someone even function as a human being without the ability to imagine pictures and sounds?”
