MEMORANDUM TO: The Elf Consortium FROM: Kris Kringle, aka Santa Claus RE: Downsizing1 DATE: November 24, 2019 ****************************************************************************** After extensive thought and countless sleepless nights, it is with great sadness and disappointment that I announce the downsizing of our North Pole headquarters. Physical, marketplace, and socio-political changes factored […]
By H. E. Casson for Tarana Burke Your whisper met with stone and echoed back “A cave is not a prison,” ricocheted Ancestors live in each abraded crack A line from renegade to renegade I see your eyes are tired, heart is sore Body bearing scar and gash and grit In counting these […]
By David Martinez I was suspected of heresy the first day of the class I’d picked up at the Christian university, which I suppose is valid. This was after I introduced the course, the topics, and how we would focus on critical thinking as a way to progress and achieve in college, and explained […]
By Mandy Brown When their skins have thinned with age, they will still tell the story: thirteen people suspended over Portland bridge to stop a Shell tanker. “I was one of them,” she will tell his children. “I regret nothing,” he will tell hers. Living sometimes means hanging at the end of a knot. […]
