“In the midst of having to move forward with courage, you’re faced with opportunities,” Osnes said. “There are things to learn in these seasons if you’re able to identify them and see them for what they are.”
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As modern feminism applauds ‘365 days’ of a man caricaturing women, female athletes across the country are still fighting to be recognized for their merit. Society has once again conflated women’s demand for recognition with a petulant plea for a gold star.
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For punk-rock millennials nostalgic for a '90s niche, forget shoegaze, anarcho, Celtic, emo, or hardcore. There’s a new punk subgenre so transgressive, so radical, that it presents "new mitigation opportunities" for the FBI.
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How does the old saying go? The chestnut from The Sun Also Rises — that bankruptcy happens gradually and then suddenly? Hemingway was right. If you need proof of concept, just look to Broadway.
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Often, as in my case, those heroes' journeys break more than they fix — a lesson the adoptive siblings in Julia Izumi’s new work Regretfully, So the Birds Are, learn in a literal trial by fire.
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Welcome to the Calais Jungle, a real-life migrant encampment that stood from January 2015 to October 2016. A notorious purgatory on so many slow, expectant journeys, where there was little food, water, space, tents, clothing. Where children played in the European mud. Where the power of a well-told story could generate empathy, understanding, action. Where there was more hope than I’ve known in my lifetime.
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