The cadence of life with Ron had settled into a series of familiar, comforting silences after 35 years of marriage. We traveled through the house like two satellites in a shared orbit, just far enough apart to prevent a collision but close enough to sustain a gravitational pull. The smell of soap and the warmth…
Brad Arnold’s career has been characterized for more than 20 years by the driving beat of a post-grunge anthem and the resonance of a gravelly voice. His lyrics, as the lead singer of 3 Doors Down, frequently addressed themes of loneliness, resiliency, and the pursuit of a “Kryptonite” to combat the stresses of the outside…
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Already, the divorce process had become an exhausting marathon of character assassination. Sitting across the aisle in a position of practiced composure, my husband Caleb presented himself before the court as the victim of my alleged “emotional volatility.” I was seen as the broken parent, while he was seen by the public as the reliable…
In the early hours of Monday morning, the peace of a summer night close to Johannesburg was brutally shattered when a sudden and unexplained burst of gunfire left nine individuals dead and a town immobilized by grief. One of the worst incidents of public violence in the area this year occurred in the municipality of…
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The tragic reminder that the effects of mass violence are rarely limited inside a news cycle is provided by the death of 26-year-old Donovan Metayer…. The reality for those who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in 2018 is much more complicated, despite the fact that the world frequently sees survival as the…
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The simple beetroot is a monument to the power of quiet, continuous sustenance in the constantly changing field of nutritional science, where “miracle cures” and “superfood” trends can burn out as quickly as they spark. The real worth of beets is found in their consistent, scientifically supported benefit to the human body, even if contemporary…
There is now complete, unrelenting anarchy in the hallowed corridors of the US Senate, which is typically a theater of measured etiquette and slow-moving bureaucracy. The impetus was a formal letter signed by twenty-one sitting federal judges that arrived with the force of a tectonic upheaval rather than a legislative impasse or a typical party…
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As rumors of a “High Alert” status start to spread through official and unofficial channels of communication, the mood in the United States has changed to one of intense and feverish expectation. This is a visceral, bone-deep sense of unease that has been developing for almost a year, anchored in a series of occurrences that…
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Human memory is a carefully curated gallery, frequently put together by individuals who care about us to display only the most exquisite and reliable images. The pictures of a flawless, unique childhood filled my own gallery for almost thirty years. I had two parents who were as devoted to me as the tides, and I…
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In addition to being a biography of longevity, Betty Reid Soskin’s narrative is a powerful illustration of the strength of the human voice in the vast scheme of American history. Soskin died quietly at the age of 104, leaving behind a world that, as a result of her existence, appears radically altered. She was a…
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