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-47 posts tagged "family"
Genevieve Coleman | Thursday, April 29, 2021
I stumbled across “The Vanishing Half” a few weeks ago when I was looking for a book to read. I was interested in the premise — identical twins Desiree and Stella Vignes from small-town Louisiana run away, wanting to escape their everyday existence. In the process, they lose track of each other and lead completely
Alysa Guffey | Friday, March 26, 2021
March 2021 — the start of spring, the anniversary of a year of lockdowns, the midmark to a stressful semester with no midterm break. Yet, along with a month that many people have associated with difficulty, uncertainty and loss came the annual celebration of Women’s History Month and recognition of women across the globe who
Nia Sylva | Friday, March 5, 2021
When I first sat down to write this article, I was under the (false) impression that TruTV’s “I’m Sorry” had been cancelled very recently. In fact, I was just late on the uptake. TruTV axed the show (which is still on Netflix) all the way back in August, blaming a halt in production due to
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, February 16, 2021
The other day, I was sitting at a table in the corner of SDH and thinking about storytelling. More specifically, I was thinking about memory and the ways that we transmit these memories. You may wonder what eating has to do with memory or personal narrative. Excellent question. But I was thinking about where I
Maria Luisa Paul | Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Commonly known as “the Rainbow,” a mosaic of millions of red, blue, yellow and black tiles adorn the floor and walls of Simon Bolivar International Airport. The merging blocks of colors crafted by the renowned artist Carlos Cruz Diez are the only thing left in Venezuela with any structure or sense. Walking through those tiles
Abby Patrick | Wednesday, April 29, 2020
My year was upended even before coronavirus took away what remained of our semester and our sense of security. I found out my family is moving this summer from Wisconsin to Texas. Now I know I’m in college and I spend less and less time at home anyway. But I mostly grew up in Wisconsin,
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, April 21, 2020
I know how to find an inmate. In Florida, you can go to the department of corrections site and look up inmates via a combination of their last name, first name and DC number. This DC number is a combination of six digits, or an alpha character followed by five digits, that is used for
Julianna Conley | Tuesday, April 21, 2020
When I was fourteen, my grandmother was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. What we’d thought was pain from working too hard in her garden actually turned out to be a broken pelvis caused by the spread of abnormal cells to her bones. After a month of my mom driving an hour every day to
Gabriel Niforatos | Tuesday, November 19, 2019
There is a Thanksgiving that my family and I had one blustery November in New Mexico that stands out from others I have experienced. On its face, it might not seem all that different to you, but it is special to me in a way that is hard to describe. If I told you what
Krista Lourdes Akiki | Friday, November 8, 2019
Dear Sister, Yes, I am indeed writing about all I love about you in the old-fashioned letter-writing method. But wait, before you roll your eyes at me, did anyone else write you a letter through a column in a newspaper? This idea has crossed my mind several times throughout the past couple of months. However,