Read and Respond: Reading for the Common Good
Reading, researching, and informing ourselves allow our actions to be more deliberate and less reactionary
Checking Out on the Fourth
My bottle of maple syrup sat suspended on the conveyor belt as the check-out clerk finished with the customer in front of me. Just the maple syrup, that was all I had stopped for. I was in the “15 items or less” aisle, so it would be a quick trip. The clerk scanned my...
One Woman: The Unknown Soldier
How a conversation starts with a stranger never seems straightforward. My friend Kelly and I, and her two boys, had gone downtown for a festival, and as we were leaving, we decided to stop at the Subway sandwich shop to buy bottles of water. While we were there, Kelly...
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