Where the reporting ends and the reflecting begins. Personal essays and literary nonfiction, entered through the image that started each one. Tap a frame to read.
Four college students on birth control as the center of women's healthcare — and what it means as reproductive rights come under attack.
Read →With 70% women and 30% men on campus, students on what dating and hookup culture really look like at a small liberal arts college.
Read →How a Minnehaha Park seafood shack came to be run, almost entirely, by the kids of the neighborhood.
Read →Fifty years on Anna Maria Island, two hurricanes, and what “old Florida” loses when it rebuilds.
Read →Returning to Curitiba, and the host mother whose love outran her politics.
Read →A summer guiding kayak tours on Anna Maria Island, and the red tide that turned the bay to a graveyard.
Read →The memory of a seventh grade sleepover, in a college bar.
Read →The questions people ask when you come out — and the answers I kept to myself.
Read →A litany for a home city — written in the spring of 2020, and offered again now.
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