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Timing

A broken clock, a chance encounter, a long-distance relationship

Past Futures

billy woods on the Cycles and Patterns of Human History

It just takes the right person, at the right time, to light the right spark and make what previously would have seemed impossible the law of the land. When I was a child, Somalia had a government. They might not have one again for the rest of my life.

The Basement

Teenage parties, lost treasures, wartime bomb shelters

Uniforms

For a job at Burger King, a prison in North Carolina, a girls’ school in Iran

The American Dream

An Indian immigrant, an oil-company man, a bicycle-riding nomad

A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

A Sandwich Is A Concept

Our biggest fear was dogs. Ronnie and I looked up dog facts like maniacs. Can dogs smell through plastic? Does the USPS use drug dogs? How do you trick drug dogs? How effective are drug dogs? Are drug dogs a scam that the government uses to justify illegal searches?

Anniversaries

Of a fifty-year marriage, of an immigrant’s journey, of a terrorist attack