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Tag Archives: life
The Beauty Monster
The cult of personal appearance – like a creature from a horror movie – is eating away at our brains and hearts.
Notes from the Exurbs
Life inside Boston’s easternmost ring road, west of its massive suburban mosaic, is more than the meets the eye of Google earth. This outer ring of habitation, tucked inside the burly bark of the interstate, is the next woody circle out from suburbia – exurbia – an as-yet unsung layer in the tree rings of [...]
A Southern Autumn
I’ve lived in Georgia and Alabama since 1974. I was nine when we moved here during Christmas break. I want to describe life here, so people who don’t live here won’t think we’re all uneducated hicks…then again maybe you will, but if you do, I can tell you with certainty that we don’t care. I’ve [...]
The Big Dreary
As Ukraine nears election time, our columnist stalks the streets of the capital, feeling perfectly justified in her foul mood.
Jon’s Story – a Brother’s Forgiveness
“Miss, I don’t believe in God, but can I talk with you for a minute?” He held his red bandana in his hand with a sense of awe and reverence not typically observed in our simple, one-room chapel on the first floor of the shelter. Jon was a tall, muscular young man whose quiet confidence [...]
The Sweetest Thing
As millions of other people in this sick, sad world of ours, I follow in the footsteps of Winston Churchill. Am I a charismatic leader who overcame the Nazis and a lisp? Am I a defiant showstopper with a knack for draining “native” rebellions of their energy and whiskey bottles of their contents? No, no, [...]
Three Sprinkles of Spice
In a Middle East region beset by trouble, our Columnist manages to stumble upon a shimmer of light in the surrounding darkness
The Season
“Omigod, Brianna, my neighbours have an inverted Christmas tree just like this one! Who do they think they are?”"I know. Some people just try to be different for the sake of being different. It’s totally stupid.” Drop Dead Gorgeous dvdrip “Seriously.”
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