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From Pretoria to Peoria

By |January 9, 2023|Essays|

There’s a neologism that I’d propose for the often-radical international activism that comes from non-coastal college towns that are too often easily ignored – midwestern cosmopolitanism.

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Remember Me Different

By |December 7, 2022|Essays|

Mrs. M would not be given the courtesy of a new lease, as the building had changed management. Cachet G! was closing. Cold and calculated gentrification.

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Fathers, Sons, and Notre Dame

By |November 23, 2022|Essays|

His life span and mine, thus far, cover 133 years – 1889 to 2022 – and we, my father and I, shared the planet for only 29 of those years before his death.

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