The Economist: Substantive Brevity
August 19, 2011
How one weekly news publication gets it right.
Archive for the ‘Humanity’ Category
You Can’t Make it Here
August 12, 2011
What had she accomplished? There was no internet startup, she had not travelled to Africa, and she had not founded an NGO.
Blank Slate
I hate to see that evening Sun bite down/
one ruler for another
Speaking Each Other’s Language
August 5, 2011
Well known fact: we citizens of the Western world don’t sing in public unless we’re good at singing (or we’re drunk at a karaoke bar.) Lesser known fact: this is simply not true in the East.
After the Fourth
August 5, 2011
The days surrounding July 4th normally trumpet the ease of summer, but this year’s music is different. It was Tuesday, the fifth of July, when the horns gave way to the unrelenting beat of the future.
Mountain Roads, Sing Me Home
July 29, 2011
Once I moved to Appalachia, and my soul, it has stayed there. Now the cracks in my heart seal up a little bit whenever I travel through.
Haint
July 29, 2011
In the highway’s curve, in the swept/
light that precedes the car, I am/
coming home.
Feminine Failure
July 22, 2011
Can we bake, assemble, and frost our three-tiered cakes and eat them too?