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October 2021October 2021For almost everyone the notion of home is usually a positive one. It is the known as opposed to the unknown; it is certainty as opposed to uncertainty. . . . It is the familiar and predictable. Better that than the unknown, the unpredictable, with a stranger imposing strange ways. It is also the primordial sense of the need for security, of being held, of belonging.
Stephen Shaw
The kind you’re born with, the kind you choose, the kind that teach Catholic school
By Our ReadersOctober 2021What happened to the folks in that car? Did they walk? Where are they? Where does the courage come from? Where does the terrible faith come from?
By John SteinbeckOctober 2021I tell people that when I was born, my mother / was on drugs, and so she named me Brett. / But what I don’t tell them is that she almost / named me Charlotte and wanted to call me / Cha-Cha.
By Brett Elizabeth JenkinsOctober 2021Slowly, Heidi finished the last of her champagne. She wiped her lipstick from the glass with her thumb, and something stirred inside Lawrence.
By Chelsea BaumgartenOctober 2021But some things are clear: Power begets violence. Violence reinforces power. White Americans damn well know this much.
By Kim McLarinOctober 2021To insist that people who have a mobile shelter are “homeless” not only denies that their shelter can be a home; it also has the potential to deny their humanity, because it insists that they are incapable of making a home.
By Thacher SchmidOctober 2021It’s like arriving at your destination after a long drive, only to realize your mind has been elsewhere the entire time and you have no memory of the lights you stopped at, the turns you made, the glide in and out of traffic. Morning arrives again, and I stand in the kitchen, startled to exist.
By Steve EdwardsSeptember 2021Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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