Just The Way We Are
by Lasara Firefox Allen Every year on and around my birthday, I take inventory. Whether I want to or not, this happens. So I’ve learned to roll with it. And this year, here’s what inventory has yielded: Limit and defeat are not synonyms. As a writer, maybe you’d think I would have figured that one [...]
Tonight, I was sitting on my couch minding my own business when 60 Minutes came on. The segment was on African Mercy, the largest civilian hospital ship on the sea. The ships bring medical care to mostly West Africans who “suffer from diseases unseen in America-illnesses that can make you believe in curses.” The [...]
I sat down for my conversation with Beautiful As I Am photographer Leslie Carpenter frazzled from a day of handling oozing poison ivy (Thing One), girl drama (Thing Two), and a smelly-turned-bathed dog the size of a moose (Woodson). To say my head was maybe not in the right place for this interview is a bit [...]
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