I’m grieving. I’m sure you are too, dear reader. I think it’s easy, or at least it has been for me, to look at everything we’ve lost. And we’ve lost so much, right? Some of us have lost graduations, family, an accurate sense of time. So I’ve chosen instead to list something that I gained, […]

Health experts will berate you for eating after eight pm. They will warn you that the ramifications include but are not limited to weight gain, irregular eating habits, and a disturbed circadian rhythm. This may all be true, but there are few pleasures and one of them is the late-night supper or more accurately termed […]

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead Note: Please be advised that as things are changing quickly during this pandemic, the information available on the conditions inside will continue grow exponentially. It is and has been increasingly difficult to keep up […]

I couldn’t tell time until the fourth grade. Don’t even get me started on long division. I was not even a student with potential. I stalled the class. I was infamous for needing that extra shove to graze mediocrity. Granted, I was an incredibly lazy child. While my siblings recited multiplication problems, I idly gnawed […]

Over the past three weeks I’ve used memes like an optic salve. Sometimes they soothe, inducing laughter, bringing a necessary emotional release. Other times memes deliver a brief sting—the truth buried within their healing properties can go deep.   During this quarantime, I am grateful for the selective surroundings I’ve curated on my social media. I see friends uplifting the voices of immunocompromised folks who have been organizing mutual […]