Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
The Fading World
He has no recollection of Abba jee, my grandfather; he met him only once when he was barely three. But he has inherited the fear I have long harboured in ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Out
All day you are outside, walking, alone. The businesses, save for a few, are dark and shuttered, the streets empty.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Voice Lessons
My goal is to reclaim what was lost.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
On a Clear Night in California
Above all, my father was benevolent; a man of the people, and of all living creatures.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Summer of Acceptance
I was sixteen and mesmerized by the graffiti – framed by tunnels, bridges, and walls of industrial buildings. It seemed the only view on an Amtrak train from Springfield, ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Nostalgia, circa 1960’s
The Wikipedia tour guide spiel
It would be my time at the Beauty Pageant metropolis that summer. We start at the majestic Marlborough Blenheim Hotel at Nineteen Hundred Pacific ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
The Lucid Interval
Photo by Hervé Simon
One of memory’s slyer tricks is to colour things with a sense of foreboding. When I think of that night in Siena, the details seem prescient. ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Walking the West Side Highway
Photo by Joiseyshowaa
I didn’t know the history of the West Side Highway when my mom and I started walking it in the mid-1970s. All I knew was that it ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Life’s Ups and Downs
The amusement park sprawled across acres of land criss-crossed by paths and studded with buildings and rides. Although some of the rides offered a great deal of vertical movement, ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
North Idaho
Time goes by so fast, doesn’t it?
Recently I had the chance to read Eula Biss’s essay “Time and Distance Overcome.” She gives the reader a quick history of ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Speeding
Image courtesy the author.
My dad is driving fast. His sizeable right foot encased in a dark brown extra-wide double-E sized work shoe presses on the pedal, heavy with impatience.
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Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Neuropathy
Stage one
Neuropathy can result from exposure to toxins. It begins with the gradual onset of numbness due to peripheral nervous system damage.
First block students file out. Second ...
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Weeds
“It was because that proud moment of success could never be recaptured.”
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Ode to Winter
Trying to find light in a dark city winter.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
My Summer Working at the Piggly Wiggly
Image courtesy of the author.
Once or twice a year, I fly from the New York City area to South Carolina to visit my Pop. When I exit the terminal ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
9010 Blankenship
Brothers’ relationship is changed forever—but the memories stay the same.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Shepherd’s Pie
A family recipe in a time of grief.
Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday, Literature
An Innocent Moment
I guess dads were breakable after all.
Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday, Literature
Paper, Boy
Third place winner of The Art of Reflection Competition 2022
Photo by Steve Rainwater.
King of the Hill, Mike Judge’s animated TV series from the late 1990s and early 2000s, ...
Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday, Literature
White Deer
How did he know the deer was a girl?