Aug 14, 2017
Horse Experience: Notes on Recovery from the Louisiana Floods
“Some of these horses have also been rescued from floodwaters. They too are in a strange place, and deeply alone.”
“Some of these horses have also been rescued from floodwaters. They too are in a strange place, and deeply alone.”
Librarians across the country are witnessing opioid overdoses on the job. Here’s how some library systems are responding.
“Stripped free of technology and social contact, maybe I can finally reflect on the man I’d like to be.”
I witnessed my mother work twice as hard as the men under the hot sun. All she had were her hands.
“It was an alternate world, where the dead came everyday, and we treated it as normal.”
“The office is a different place after the investigation. No one wants to look at me or speak to me.”
In practice, this gig is easier than expected. It’s my mind that throws me off.
“People say a lot of things when they can’t watch television.”
“Alternating ecstasy and despair characterize resident life in particular, and medical practice in general.”
“Like most people in education, I wanted to make a difference.”
Not one of those big, tacky circuses—something more European and intimate.
“It was disingenuous to pretend we were all in this out of love.”
“Storytellers came to me looking for connection—which was, of course, the very thing I’d been craving myself.”
“We were often unaware of the ghosts working the land beside us.”
A high school English teacher considers the systems that control much more than grammar.
“Who was I to say what women should be allowed to read?”
