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Elana Kupor

Apr 7, 2026

Notes from the Playground

I am four years old, standing on the playground of the Jewish Community Center where I go to nursery school. My best friend Alice is not here today. Alice is my only friend. She lives in a bigger house than…
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Kristine Langley Mahler

Dec 4, 2025

Foxglove

Foxglove grows in bells, a stalk with different chambers. When foxglove bells are plucked and dried, crumbled and served in a tea, they enter the ventricles of the heart. Foxglove works like a remedy. The primary principle of homeopathy is…
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Asa Drake

Aug 28, 2025

I Thought America Was the Thief: Mastery and Assimilation in Esther Lin’s “Cold Thief Place”

Lately, in my social media feed, I’ve seen a James Baldwin quote surface between news stories and advertisements: “You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This…

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