He’s a security guard. I work in nuclear security. The pandemic swept away my sense that we can really protect the ones we love from anything. My father protects for a living, but he is invisible by design. For more than two decades, he watched the halls of a shopping …
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Author’s blurb: When I think of concrete, the first thing that comes to mind is usually grey and hard structures used to build walls and pave floors. The industrial look can come off unflattering to me, especially when left exposed without being painted first. But Adesh and Shahfiq see a …
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“There’s pain, and then there’s stepping on a Lego in the middle of the night,” my father often repeated with a laugh when his grandkids visited. They took over his living room, dining table, bedroom floors and bedside tables with messes of plastic blocks haphazardly assembled to resemble something magical …
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On August 10, a derecho blew through a large band of the Midwest. Stretching across central Iowa, northern Illinois, and portions of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana, this “derecho” was a megastorm, featuring 80+ miles per hour sustained winds and gusts up to and over 130 miles per hour. Unfortunately, my …
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