Fruit Flies
The large windows in the kitchen of my new home let in the perfect amount of sun for…
Memoir
16 articles
Ernie
My lover is dying. We met late, both forty-two, both Elvis diehards, both into hiking through spectacular scenery…
The Second Ticket to Life
If there’s one thing I learned as a medical trainee who deals daily with death, it’s that humans…
The Present
On my sixteenth birthday, my mother gave me a leather-bound journal with my name embossed in gold on…
The 91-Year-Old Man Who Is My Father
The 91-year-old man who is my father is slowly going insane. His conversation is rambling, his ideas are…
The Snowflake
It’s a land of tundra and toil; sacrifice and secrecy; fallacy and fight. They say Russia is a…
We Began as Strangers
“Quick, the cord’s wrapped around her neck. Twice!” I remember my numb feet in the stirrups. I remember…
Ph.inisheD—How I Went from GED to Ph.D
Following thirteen months behind my only sibling’s academic footsteps was hard. From elementary school on, she was a…
Mother of Orphans
– Hello grandma, how is everything? – Oh, my dear Seyma, is that you? Since you are calling…
At Least
As I wheeled Chris off the elevator, he was quieter than the day before, definitely not in the…
Grateful for A Soldier’s War
She stood at the edge of the abyss, the blinding darkness engulfing her, enticing her. It would be…
The Great Wave: The Aftermath
“It’s my fault, all my fault; I should’ve tried harder,” he said. A quintessential characteristic of his –…
Love and Suicide
The day my husband died, my work for a newspaper had taken me out of the office to…
Under the Shade of Tranquility: My Meeting with Fethullah Gülen
No concept is more central to Islam than the concept of peace. From our origins, to how we…
Curtains in the Breeze
Trauma and memory being the strange things they are, a part of me will always be there. A…