When my daughter Magda was four months old, we flew to California for a vacation. We were living in Rochester, New York, where it was still icy, gray winter, and…
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The Birds: The Accidental Ornithologist
by Guest Contributor January 28, 2021I knew it was a long shot, but I had to do it. It was now or never. I promised Joe, my agent of thirty years, two weeks. “Two weeks!”…
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Food and Covid-19: I Am Going to Eat The World
by Guest Contributor September 9, 2020During this world-wide pandemic lock down, I am sitting on the couch in the living room of the apartment I am renting in Montevideo, Uruguay, watching the Argentinian food channel…
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A Few Good Apples
by Guest Contributor August 10, 2020Had the stairwell been crowded like it usually is, I might not have noticed. But the afternoon before campus closed for Thanksgiving most of the students had already gone, stricken…
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Literacy Narrative: The Dis-located Imagination
by Guest Contributor June 4, 2020I’ve been living in exile for forty-two years now, about half of them away from home. If that’s as good a line as I think, it’s because, as Lao Tzu…
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Pajarito de los Montes
by Guest Contributor May 19, 2020When the patrol car pulled to a stop on the dirt road two fields away and three Police officers piled out, we never imagined they were coming for us. A…
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God of the Sun
by Guest Contributor April 24, 2020The summer you were conceived had an apocalyptic feel to it. It started with the heat. In our normally fair city, it sweltered past ninety for days. Your father and…
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WOVEN: The Flesh
by Guest Contributor February 5, 2020WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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The Last Family Vacation
by Guest Contributor January 10, 2020Chris set the reusable Viegut Funeral Home bag on the conveyer belt, went through security and waited. He wore the only pair of shorts he owned and one of his…
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The Culinary Appeal of the French Taco
by Guest Contributor November 4, 2019Typically, I don’t understand the irritatingly persistent appeal of French food. I have little interest in the incessant barrage of cookbooks, the well-lit photos, the homages and journeys all dedicated…
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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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Leukaemia Travelogue
by Guest Contributor July 5, 2019A third eye for sensing danger has planted itself at the base of my skull. It sends out a dull throb when the possibility of bodily harm is perceived. It’s…
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WOVEN: There’s No Place Like Home
by Guest Contributor April 24, 2019WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Literacy Narrative: Salsa Parisino
by Guest Contributor March 28, 2019I had no alternative; I was trapped by language. – Amitav Ghosh, In An Antique Land In early 2009, carrying nine school semesters of French instruction, I landed in…