When he was three, Jacob got his first skinned knee.I was in the backyard, trimming the raspberry bushes, while Derek moved wood chips in the front and Jacob rode his scooter up and down the sidewalk. Then a high-pitched squall cut through the podcast in my earbuds and I went running.The wheelbarrow had tipped on […]
Two ways to be, as I see it, in or out, and I’m in right now.Da says insaan is a greedy bunch, wait till you see us ifritis. We like us some good time, a little dancing when we have enough juice to materialize, some women. Man, your insaan women are hot, not like our […]
Joyce Cho, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Computer Sciences, Iowa State University, and an avid photographer, has spent the past decade following her retirement from academic life engaged in improving my visual functionality. I accompany her on photo expeditions, where she enjoys the pleasures of large format black-and-white film photography. She has explained to me that […]
It was bottom of the sixth, Toby on third, the Cards down a run to the Bruins, and the sky was falling. Scoops of grim clouds were rolling in, wind kicking up dust and wrappers. They’d call the game for thunder. My ears strained for it. I’d bet Gator fifty bucks on the Cards—against my […]
As I sit down to write this editorial essay, the headlines have been filled with news that Baltimore’s Key Bridge, in my home state of Maryland, collapsed after being struck by a container ship leaving the harbor. Nothing could be more representative of the theme of this issue—reversals.I was ready to talk about the Tower […]