The large round table had a circle of a dozen or so young people and two or three adults all engaged in discussing and discerning […]

“Before the start of summer every year, under my grandfather’s guide, I would clean, grease, and check over the whole machine to make sure it […]

“The clock chimes, the watches beep, time tick-tocks along, and the light spreads a little bit more with every passing moment. The eyes are wide […]

As she opened the wad of wrapping paper that her son with his small hands did his best to tape together, the young lad’s entire […]

The moment was overwhelmingly surreal as all of my senses were in complete overdrive. And then as if someone threw a glass of ice cold […]

“It’s worse than it’s ever been. I just had to order another box of body bags.” Those words seared me and I was filled with […]

With no sense of boundaries, to say nothing of the fact that we all live in the reality of a world wide pandemic, this individual […]

“In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of […]

As I drove slowly up the road devastation surrounded me on all sides. The landscape in every direction was blackened and the air was filled […]

He stomped out and slammed the door, and those left in the room sat in silence. The discussion had been intense, but civil. The conversation, […]