I meet Tom R. in front of the Faux Museum, in Portland’s Old Town. He offers me tomatoes from his garden as he’s unlocking the front door. Slogans in the windows: “Home of the Woolly Ant,” and “Oldest Museum in the World!” “Sometimes I can hear people standing outside and reading the signs aloud and laughing,” says Tom. “Oddly enough, those people never come in.” Tom is charmed by my […]
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Sarah Westwood | My recently completed heartbreak collection
Brendan, Jeff, Kris, Lorenzo, Joey, John, Evan, Matt, Kyle, and Dan. These are the men in my curio cabinet of romance, men who each elicited some sort of feeling strong enough to brand his name on my heart. Some of them were perfectly lovely, some unnecessarily disrespectful, some criminally clueless, and some simply cruel. For now, I’ve locked the door on this cabinet of curiosities and stowed the key. Currently, […]
Rosalee de la Foret | The puzzle of health
As a teenager I loved my visits to the natural health food store, where I would prowl the aisles just looking at everything on the shelves. I would pore over the pages of Prescription of Natural Healing learning all I could about vitamins and herbs. I doubt there are many sixteen-year-olds getting their kicks from health food stores. I went to college and majored in foreign languages, another passion. I […]
Vasiliy Safin | Road trip to completion
Three weeks ago my brother and I embarked on a cross-country road trip from New York to Los Angeles in hopes of finding something that may or may not be missing. We found that the South really is different from the North, that New Orleans is different from everyplace else, and that West Virginians feel very strongly about being different from Virginians. We also found Texas to be vast in […]
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