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Soup and Democracy

By | 2018-09-05T12:39:09-07:00 September 6th, 2018|Categories: Issue 70: 06 September 2018|Tags: , , , , , |

By Susan Swartz   I took a day off from the news and made soup. No NPR. No New York Times. No local paper. No TV. A lot of curry. I took shelter from Syria and Parkland in my sunny kitchen. Had it not been for two teaspoons of neon orange turmeric I might have entirely [...]

Citizen

By | 2017-02-23T21:22:58-08:00 December 22nd, 2016|Categories: Issue 4: 22 Dec 2016|Tags: , , , , , |

By Susan Arthur The day, as I write this, is November 9, 2016. Yep, the day half of us in America wander about in nearly lobotomized shock at Trump’s win. We look for solace from each other, wonder what to do. There have been whispers for some time about moving to Canada. I hear the Immigrate [...]