Chantele Theroux on how to live and love like the Man in Black.
Entire Oklahoma Town Flattened by Tornado
May 20, 2013 by 1 Comment
After the giant tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, Melissa Newton and city manager Steven Eddy talk about being in the middle of the destruction.
Should We Forgive Apologetic Bullies?
May 8, 2013 by 14 Comments
Bullying leaves life-long consequences. Is one of those consequences a lifetime of clouded judgement?
Months of Lockdown
February 10, 2013 by 1 Comment
While in lockdown, poet and prisoner Spoon Jackson flies in his mind’s eye, witness to freedom and injustice.
Poem: Epitaph … for Skip
January 24, 2013 by 1 Comment
Daniel Lee Fee’s elegy for a young man describes the feelings “neither one of us guys / was brave enough, / simple enough, / to say, / to say out loud.”
Just Doing My Job
January 9, 2013 by 12 Comments
Justin Cascio’s life has been changed by the writers who reveal their own lives—and the taboos of our society.
A Year-End Reflection on a Tragedy
January 1, 2013 by 10 Comments
Ben Dumas hopes that giving love in the midst of recent tragedies can provide a foundation to grow.
Gun Dreams
December 26, 2012 by 30 Comments
In our fantasies, a gun ends all arguments in our favor.
A Grief So Profound
December 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
What can we learn from ancient myths about grief and mourning in the present?
Cockfighters and Poets
December 10, 2012 by 3 Comments
What the cockfighter and the artist have in common is what they put on the line.
Sweatshop Fire in Bangladesh: Tragedy Repeats Itself
November 29, 2012 by 8 Comments
Noah Brand questions whether the recent tragedy in Bangladesh will have any influence on international workplace safety reform
Murder, Motherhood, and the Media: Reflections on a Feeding Frenzy
October 27, 2012 by 5 Comments
In the wake of a double homicide, knee-jerk opinion blames mothers and completely erases fathers.
The Grasshopper Life
September 1, 2012 by 2 Comments
To his old girlfriends, Robert Barsanti’s father would always be Romeo. But for Robert, Benito was Lear.
Flash Fiction: An American Tragedy
July 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“There’s some foundational myth that adversity makes you better or stronger or whatever. That’s a nice thought, but it’s wrong.”
Love Shouldn’t Hurt
March 31, 2012 by 8 Comments
Earl Hipp’s niece was killed by her husband in a murder-suicide. This post is dedicated to both of the victims of tragedy.
“Why are these men so alienated that they need to express themselves through mass homicide?”
This is a comment by Nick, mostly on the post “Open Thread: Should Certain Guns be Against the Law?” and by Jed Diamond on the post “Not a Joke: Why Do Our Boys Keep Up the Mass Shootings?”