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Hazel Anna Rogers

How I fell in Love With Winter

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Carl Kruse

     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

January 4, 2021January 11, 2021 Carl Kruse

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 […]

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Nighttime

A Poem by Hazel Anna Rogers

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Carl Kruse

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 […]

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The Art of Journaling

December 22, 2020December 22, 2020 Carl Kruse

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 […]

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Hazel Anna Rogers

Reveries of Starvation – Proust, Melville & Donuts

December 17, 2020December 19, 2020 Carl Kruse

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 […]

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A Poem by Monica Korycinska

October 20, 2020October 25, 2020 Carl Kruse

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 […]

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Coleridge

A Few Words on Coleridge

October 18, 2020October 18, 2020 Carl Kruse

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 […]

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Hazel Anna Rogers

Look to the Skies – The Enduring Connection of Bird to Human

September 21, 2020October 25, 2020 Carl Kruse

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. […]

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Pizza Day

May 22, 2020October 25, 2020 Carl Kruse

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 […]

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