The questions I would have asked you when I was 10, after you passed away: Why did you choose a Canadian baseball team to support? Why did you buy their…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
My Grandfather Survived the 1918 Pandemic, Only To Be Bitten by the African Tse-Tse Fly
by Guest Contributor May 1, 2020“Don’t move.” From the passenger seat behind me, Bryan grabbed my headrest and pulled himself up. “That is one big bug,” he said with excess enthusiasm. “Where?” I whispered. “On top…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayMusic
I Listened to Johnny Cash This Morning and Almost Cried
by Guest Contributor August 9, 2019My grandfather’s house stood on the corner of Beech Street in northeast Portland. The two-story home, shaded by tall and leafy trees, sat adjacent to a garage, a workspace filled…
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Image Credit: Edwin Carmona “Every dictatorship, whether of man or party, leads to the two forms that schizophrenia loves most: the monologue and the mausoleum.” —Octavio Paz Joe…