“The smile of an old friend heals like a sliver of sunshine on a cloudy afternoon.” —me
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Florencia Orlandoni writes about her recent experience at the 2020 Women’s March in San Francisco performing the Chilean anti-rape anthem “Un violador en tu camino.”
Dian Greenwood was a young girl in the 1950s when her family took up residence in a South Dakota courthouse, her bedroom just opposite the county’s jail.
As America has viscerally demonstrated, if society treats prisoners like a problem, it creates far greater ones.
Ramiza Shamoun Koya shares the concern of being a mother to an expectant daughter, revisiting the hardships she persevered while growing up.
S.M. Park’s column Risen Apes about being a 70-year-old boomer. In “Pushing the Envelope,” Park talks about Wang’s blinding word processor monitors, earthquakes, and a hook shot free throw.
Whether you sit on the left or the right, you subscribe to the tone of social media. But there’s a very good reason why we never get anywhere.
S.M. Park’s column Risen Apes about being a 70-year-old boomer. In “Action Jackson,” Park ponders modes of travel, people imprisoned by screens, and memorizing eulogies.
Courtney Herron was found down the road from my house, Eurydice Dixon was murdered in a park I walk through. I could have been either of those women.
Another year in the books. The Big Smoke America is now four years old and has published over 1,700 articles and essays. Here are the Top 10 from 2019.
