Faded music dreams, a fledgling family farm, and a search for new definitions of work and success.
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Three Strings: Past, Present, and Future
Finding beauty, human connection, and one’s heritage in the resonant sounds of the dulcimer.
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My Name Is a Mountain
On language, belonging, and embracing the different versions of ourselves.
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The Expanding Table: Honoring Palestinian Culinary Tradition in Arkansas
For one baker and educator in Northwest Arkansas, food is a connection to her family’s roots in Gaza—and an essential way to share the stories of their culture.
Posted inEssays & Criticism
Flying Solo
On self-love and self-acceptance while aging in a disabled body.
Posted inEssays & Criticism
Poets in the Machine
Why does the literary world still hold online writing at arm’s length?
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Relentless Toil: A Reading List About Filipino Laborers
The sacrifices of Filipino workers at home and abroad are enormous.
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I Think I’m Going to Be Sick
The ride technology at amusement parks has become more sophisticated. For ride-goers prone to motion sickness, the outcome can be messy.
Posted inNonfiction
When We Are Afraid
On teaching in a red state, the silences in our history lessons, and all I never learned about my hometown.