Browsing Category Voices
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Voices 0
Lesson from a Last Day
My husband’s living will is in his backpack when he checks into the little New England hospital near the lake house where we stay every summer. Not that ...
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Culture 0
Fox Humana
If asked, the fox might say that one of the problems in her world, and ours, is that humans have overtaken her species as the most widely dispersed ...
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Community 1
When Things Go Wrong, Do Right: Options for Action
Thoughts in response to a friend asking, after grand catastrophe: “What can we do?” We ask each other in times of trouble: “What can we do — about ...
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Pangyrus 1
From the Editor: What We Are
On the Publication of Pangyrus Three No one knows, showing up on the shores of a strange country, clutching an address on an envelope, where the journey will ...
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Politics 0
Trump’s Executive Order Attacks the America I Know and Love
In this moment, America is not mine. It cannot be—it is not like anything I have seen. I came here in 2007, one year before Barack Obama was ...
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Poetry 0
Kim Stafford: Two Poems on Trump’s Inauguration
Inauguration Day, 2017 The new patriot is a listener. The new citizen talks to strangers. The new continental congress convenes at bus stops, taverns and cafes, parking ...
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Ideas 1
Meeting President Obama: A Farewell to Representation
This article is being published in collaboration with the Kennedy School Review. One day last fall, at a small campus in the heart of New England, I stood ...
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Culture 2
Love in a Cup
“I’ll have a chai,” I say. “You mean a chai tea latte?” my barista asks. There is a long, uncomfortable pause that she doesn’t seem to notice. “Fine,” ...
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Craft and Career 0
Speak Up, I’m Eavesdropping
I put it off as long as I could. Covered up, as people do; smiled and nodded. Finally I gave in and went to an audiologist. She sat ...
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Place 0
Provincetown Sketches, Part 1
Before marriage, the gays had some nice things: bars without bachelorette parties, Pride marches without corporate logos, relationships without state recognition and straight expectation. We also had some ...
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Voices 0
Detectives
I’m not sure why I chose Howie Herskovisy to be my partner in solving mysteries. Perhaps it was because, a year younger than me and living one very ...
