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In Rachel Zemach’s essay, first published in Huffpost, we learn that for a deaf person, being able to speak is not superior to communicating in ASL (American Sign Language). Rachel lost her hearing as a ten-year-old girl and as a result, can speak clearly–unlike many people who are deaf. But this doesn’t give her an […]
In this exquisitely poetic essay, first published in The Diagram and republished in Creative Nonfiction, Diana Xin takes our listeners back to her grandmother’s rural village where she boils water for drinking and hangs her laundry on the line. “To accumulate so many years and so few regrets: this must be a life well lived,” […]
Not everyone has an amazing relationship with their parents. Not every parent is a person we feel proud to be related to, to be “of”. In some cases, we are simply just different people. Or maybe the problems run deeper, into past actions or beliefs. Janice Northerns faces her conflicted feelings head-on in the essay “Something […]