The bend point
The bend point is the place on a strand of hair that dictates where a hairdresser should cut. It is the furthest place at which a strand can be held away from the scalp and still fall towards the...
View ArticleThe electoral high school
The first time I ever voted was in the last midterm election at the McGaw YMCA in Evanston, IL. I bounced into the silent carpeted room ready to check off the names I wrote down on a Post-it and feel...
View ArticleFrom trash to treasure
It’s hard to see all the way inside the large barn at New Milford Farms. On this cloudy Monday, not much light made it in through the plastic roofing, and the air was filled with rising steam. I...
View ArticleLife with parole
When Governor Dannel Malloy first announced his Second Chance Initiative in December, Dan Jusino was skeptical. Malloy argued that by diverting ex-offenders into programs of “rapid attachment” to the...
View ArticleHome in the making
At 1:30 a.m. on a warm night last May, Moutoni-Marie Ngaboyishema and her son Fabior Naurellio got off the Metro North at Union Station. The trip took more than a decade. It began in the Democratic...
View ArticleStories of the body
Dr. Sandra Sessoms, the thin, white-haired woman standing across from me, asks me to start from the beginning. Immediately, I hesitate. “I don’t really know what’s relevant.” “Why don’t we start with...
View ArticlePrivates
I. KYLIZZLEMYNIZZL Paparazzi cameras flash madly from the screen of my phone. I am watching Kylie Jenner’s Snapchat story on the toilet. While I take a mid-morning leak, I get one of my tri-daily doses...
View ArticleGround breakers
The man had been sleeping in the bottom of the stairwell for years. From the top of the parking garage staircase, one could hardly make out what was curled up in the V-shaped wedge on the first floor....
View ArticleWhat we talk about when we talk about jackfruit
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf On Thurs., Feb. 23, I ate dinner in Jonathan Edwards College. The first feature of the night’s meal was...
View ArticleLight and choops
Michael Menz, PC ’17, may not even be six feet tall, but he is a basketball champion. Menz is not on the varsity basketball team. He’s not on the club team either. Nor is he on A-hoops or B-hoops, the...
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