Boundaries Like Bruises
He is a settler; I’m Onkwehon:we. Our love was a process of unlearning the bad love we’d been given
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Talking to My Family about Race
For a long time, I was the only Black biracial person in my family. My relatives didn’t always accept that we shared different experiences
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The Year I Couldn’t Speak at All
First I lost my job, then I lost my confidence, then I lost my voice
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Love Letters from the Battlefield
How words kept my grandparents connected during the Second World War
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One Person Can’t Save the World
Working with Médecins Sans Frontières was my dream job. I quickly learned humanitarian work is not so straightforward
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What It Means to Go on a Modern Pilgrimage
The Camino de Santiago trail has drawn millions of people with its promises of absolution, discovery, and healing
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Out of the Shadow of a Mountain
I travelled to the Himalayas with my dad to better understand his history. I left understanding my future
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Why I Made Up the Role Model of My Dreams
In 2009, I left my children with their father and flew to Mexico City to hunt down the last living Surrealist
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Madeleine L’Engle Taught Me the Universe Has Meaning
The Wrinkle in Time author shaped my ideas on nearly everything, from family to illness
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How I Found My Way After an MS Diagnosis at Twenty-Seven
Socrates and Plato helped me realize that charting the future with a chronic disease means embracing ambiguity
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