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After the 2020 election, there were about 18 months where there was no news about Trump. We could exhale again., It was lovely. Then . . . boom. The motherfu^%$#cer…

In the 8 years that I lived in L.A, I fell in love with one house. On a cul-de-sac, it was Hacienda-style, white stucco, ubiquitous red-tiled roof. Besieged by wild…

I describe the legendary Palomino in Rain Dodging:  Entering the legendary Palomino Club on the fringe of North Hollywood was like stumbling onto a B-grade spaghetti western set. Walking past the…

One of my favorite gifts ever and one I treasure displaying on my bedroom-wide bookshelf is a vintage pair of tanned buffalo hide high-top Shoshone moccasins. My ex-husband bought them…

Summarized from: Baní to The Land, J-Ram a giant among marginalized youth By Anthony Castrovince, Cleveland, September 17, 2023.One day last summer, José Ramirez was telling the youngsters in the local…

Caitlin Hu, Etant Dupain and Paula Newton, edited by Eliza Anyangwe and Eliza Mackintosh,CNN. (Summarized) Dajabón, DR, and Les Cayes, Haiti  Lina found out she was pregnant with twins, First she felt…

Cecilia, I'm down on my kneesI'm begging you please to come homeCome on home.*The amazing Celia Fiennes was born in 1662, two miles from Stonehenge, in Newton Toney, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Celia and my…

Rehan Staton, a former Maryland sanitation worker, is graduating from Harvard Law School. “I got lucky, but I made the most of my luck.” I just happened to be around people…

From my uncle's memoir, American Inscape Her earliest memories included seeing an old Jew in the shtetl burst through their door with blood gushing down him as he fell squealing…

Retired Army Col. Paris Davis, 83, stood in the East Room of the White House last week as President Joe Biden draped the Medal of Honor around his neck, 58 years after…