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from The Wheel
by Guest Contributor October 4, 2019What is a question that has stayed with you through time, clung to you like an inhalation? What is a question that pulls you out from syncope? For me, it…
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Ghost Marriage
by Guest Contributor December 7, 2018Prologue: It’s important to travel after a death, they say, to help process loss from a new vantage point. A month before my wedding in 2016, my mother passed away…
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Three Meals in Europe with my Mother
by Guest Contributor July 11, 2018A Full Irish Breakfast On our first morning at the Charleville Lodge in Dublin, I awoke to the sound of maids in the corridor. They beat pillows with dull thunks…
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A Fig in Wintertime by Stephanie McCarter
by Guest Contributor January 11, 2018In July of 1999, I sat on a bench atop the Palatine Hill in Rome, as alone and grief-stricken as I have ever been. I was twenty-one years old, and…
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What We Bring Home
by Guest Contributor June 5, 2017I arrived in Rome at the end of a hot June, to study Italian for a month the summer between my junior and senior years of college. I hadn’t brought…
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Notes from Malta: Il lupo che ha ammazzato le pecore
by Dennis James Sweeney September 18, 2015Everyone keeps asking if I’m tired and I should be, definitely, given the one hour flight plus four hour layover plus seven hour flight in the opposite direction of the…