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Tag: Essay

August 3, 2025

The Poison That Tastes Like Home

Tags: Diaspora Essay Family food Identity Memory

On a mother’s consuming love
August 2, 2025

Courage & Cowardice

Tags: Culture Essay Literature Memoir Opinion
July 28, 2025

A Small King

Tags: Animals Discovery Environment Essay Nature Spirituality

A Mystical Rewilding Along Portugal’s Rio Côa
July 26, 2025

Why do beautiful people also seem smart and likeable?

Tags: Cognition Essay Psychology Social Issues Stereotypes

Psychologists have known about the ‘halo effect’ for ages. New research suggests the power of language can help explain it
July 26, 2025

FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES

Tags: Charity Community Essay Events Pets

At the buda wiener dog races, big personalities come in small packages
July 26, 2025

The Geological Sublime

Tags: Climate Change Environment Essay Extinction Science

Butterflies, deep time, and climate change
July 25, 2025

Beyond food and people

Tags: Essay Identity Philosophy

Nietzsche shows us how to embrace our connection with nature – without denying its essential conflict, strife and suffering
July 24, 2025

The Joy of Hand-Me-Ups

Tags: Essay Family Lifestyle Nostalgia Sustainability

Nothing Says “I Love You” More
July 24, 2025

Flow Alone Won’t Make You a Writer

Tags: Culture Essay Literature Writing Youth & Education

Writing starts with flow, but it’s sustained by discipline, revision, and grit.
July 23, 2025

F*ck the Literary Establishment

Tags: Books and Authors Essay Literature Memoir Writing

How a bunch of rabble-rousers, outsiders and ne’er-do-wells concocted creative nonfiction and changed journalism forever.