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When I lost my job I grew dead-set on leaving North Carolina. After months of frantic job, residency, grant, and fellowship applications, Spring afforded the opportunity to sit back and wait. I [...]

Slow and steady, my foot is healing. I’ve graduated from stitch-stitches to liquid stitches, to steri-strips, and now butterfly band-aids. Tonight I was able to do light karate movements on a [...]

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It’s my first night teaching children’s choir at the Episcopal church. I’ve been told I’ll have 7 kids for 30 minutes, ranging from ages 3 to 12. I’m being paid well for this, and the age range [...]

Arts Writer Drops Charges Katey Schultz, the arts writer injured by yard art almost two weeks ago, was seen this morning in Dr. Hero’s office carrying a six-pack of beer before noon, witnesses [...]

I’ve had two media-intensive weeks, whereby I committed to listen to Morning Edition and Democracy Now each day, catch up on my New York Review of Books, and continue reading The Week. (Latest US [...]

If you want to know the undisputed truth about US torture, be you a patriot or an anarchist, a pacifist or enlisted member of the Armed Forces, I do believe that reading the following essay is [...]

Incidentally, my high school has decided to do a short alumni spotlight on me. I share this not for the back story it affords, but for the tribute it pays to Ms. Wood, the high school English [...]

They actually fly the drones out of Nellis AFB in Nevada.

We’re sending unmanned drones into Pakistan, dropping missiles near the border of Afghanistan. Last week? One hundred eighty-seven innocent civilians were killed by the United States in these [...]