An essay that explores the nuances of identity, belonging, and cultural dissonance through the eyes of an American expatriate teaching in Korea.
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A reflective piece that captures the tension of belonging and detachment, an intimate glimpse into life behind the glamorous façade of an iconic destination.
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Explore the poignant reflections of Harvey J. Lieberman in “An American Consumer Remembers,” where everyday objects become repositories of memory and emotion.
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Can you remember the first time you began to fashion things of your own, whether objects, characters, or anything else?
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In those days we sat at individual wooden desks, the surfaces often scarred with carved initials, ink stains, and gouges from pencils. I had been warned about the algebra teacher, ...
“My best shot of meeting anyone may be dog walking.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Spastic-Dog Woman” by Lisa K. Harris.
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The world had different rules for women in 1972 than today.
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“To feel like I belong, like I’ve put time into one place and stayed long enough to put roots down.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Home is Where I’ve Arrived Too ...
Picture credit: Erin Wallace
I just saw your beautiful fox: my neighbor texts me on her early morning walk past my house.
I’ve seen the fox many times, usually over the ...
“We’ll just move far away from everyone, Mark declares, too far for people to visit.” Today’s EssaySaturday USA is “Year Three” by Edie Meade.
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“This place has fast become our sanctuary…” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Sealight” by Chris Ray.
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“I moved here to embrace the not knowing. It doesn’t come easily.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “On Not Knowing” by Katherine Plumhoff.
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“Just like that, my world unravelled in seconds.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Wherever You Go, There You Are” by Teresa Shimogawa.
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They are all ‘green’, colleagues and customers, they are ‘active now’ The same with my students yesterday, I sent the fourth reminder.
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Historians say Nero did not set a fire; whether he was fiddling or not I do not know. It seems to me sometimes that America is figuratively burning, and at ...
“It was a nightmare,” he recalls. “There were hookers turning tricks in the bathroom and junkies shooting up in the halls. If you were predisposed for a nervous breakdown, then ...
For young women today everything, and nothing, has changed.
Andrea ...
Instantly I fast-forward to a familiar concern: what will befall his
old Roto-Shine Electric Shoe Polisher when I am gone?
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All day you are outside, walking, alone. The businesses, save for a few, are dark and shuttered, the streets empty.
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My goal is to reclaim what was lost.
Nadja ...
