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For my ninth Christmas, Dad bought me a right-handed Yamaha FG-Junior acoustic guitar. I was left-handed and so furious with my father for handicapping me […]

April 22, 2022

Nước: the Vietnamese word for country and water.   Nước mắt chảy xuống. Tears flow down, my mother tells me. By which she means: a […]

April 22, 2022

Laopopo: great-grandmother Laogongong: great-grandfather In Shandong, mountains rise like fists from the earth, and pagoda trees blossom, releasing wild fuchsia plumes between the ancient fingers. […]

April 2, 2022

Hello to All That  My copy of “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” is the size of my palm. On the front cover is an illustration of Joan […]

April 1, 2022

At dinner on my first night on the farm, Brandon pulled a tick off his hand and chopped it in half with a pocket knife. […]

February 24, 2022

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts has never been bombed, which means it has fulfilled its founding purpose. In the 1950s, as the threat […]

January 27, 2022

Another day at the store. You’re in the basement, tying apron strings behind your back before heading upstairs to clock in. The pre-work anticipation this […]

January 27, 2022

There’s a little boy wearing a Spiderman mask painting a very messy and very big blue shark on his corner of the wooden mural resting […]

December 11, 2021

Outside, people are protesting for Yale to pay its fair share. Or at least that’s what the sign says, from the brief glimpse that Katia […]

October 14, 2021

Four years ago, I entered Yale as part of the class of 2021, and now the year I both dreaded and anticipated is here. It’s […]

March 14, 2021

Yale Daily News Magazine · Clean Feet When I think of my childhood in Ethiopia and Kenya, I mostly remember red dirt — the kind […]

January 31, 2021