How I fell in Love With Winter
by Hazel Anna Rogers I was always a “summer” person, as it were, despite my tendency to overheat and get exceptionally sweaty the minute the weather went above 17 […]
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Check Point Charlie Berlin
by Carl Kruse During the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was a border between East and West Berlin or more appropriately, the ONLY border where you could legally cross between the […]
A Poem by Hazel Anna Rogers
I wake, open, Into the arms of the gentle night. Not yet do the silhouettes of naked boughs Charm the light, Nor has the soft chatter of sharp beaks Set […]
The Art of Journaling
by Fraser Hibbitt There can be a stifling freedom around a blank page, and that is all a journal is; a collection of blank pages. A journal is comprised of […]
Reveries of Starvation – Proust, Melville & Donuts
by Hazel Anna Rogers I spent a large part of my teenage to early adult life starving myself, to various degrees. My memory around these five or six years is […]
A Poem by Monica Korycinska
by Carl Kruse My friend Monica’s mom ended her life following years of living with chronic pain, and some time later Monica penned this poem for her. At first I […]
A Few Words on Coleridge
By Fraser Hibbitt There is something lovable in the cursory brain. I had read Virginia Woolf describing the poet, Coleridge, as ravenously talking for hours on end about anything his […]
Look to the Skies – The Enduring Connection of Bird to Human
by Hazel Anna Rogers When I was younger, my family and I would drive around eighteen hours every summer to the south of France to meet with my mother’s family. […]
Bitcoin Pizza Day
By Carl Kruse It’s May 22, Bitcoin Pizza Day, celebrated by bitcoiners and friends everywhere. What’s this? Back in May 22, 2010, software engineer Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas with […]