by April Wendling | Nov 8, 2023 | Memoir
By Levi BeckettOn the island of Guam, some 1,600 miles off the coast of Japan, the sky looked clear, the water looked safe, and I had just bought a snorkel. We got lost several times on the road to the beach and ended up not quite where we intended. But the locals...
by April Wendling | Nov 8, 2023 | Memoir
By Helen AnilWhen my mother was young, the arrival of Onam, a harvest festival, transformed our ancestral home nestled amidst the lush emerald green of Kerala, India. Celebrated in the month of Chingam, it wasn’t just a festival; it was a symphony of local...
by April Wendling | Oct 4, 2023 | Memoir, The Human Footprint
By Gabe Lareau At the start of 2022, the world took part in its yearly tradition of adding new data to all the graphs tracking our ongoing environmental catastrophe. Previous forecasts turned out to be pretty accurate: 2022 would become the hottest year on record for...
by April Wendling | Feb 2, 2023 | Memoir
By Momo Wang When I was a teenager, maybe 15 or 16 years old, I was sitting on the couch in the living room when I saw a ladybug run across the corner of a table. The sight filled me with a sudden and strong sense of horror. The ladybug was tottering madly...
by April Wendling | Jan 21, 2021 | Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest, Memoir
By Andy Sima Life abounds on Earth, from the boiling acid pools of Yellowstone to the pressure-cooked fish of the deep-sea Mariana Trench. But in my experience, there’s one type of place devoid of all life, one that humanity creates. Burn zones. Flowers still grow...
by April Wendling | Jan 14, 2021 | Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest, Memoir
By Maria Maring After the passing of legendary folk singer/songwriter John Prine in April 2020, I found myself revisiting his songs in memoriam. Prine’s music was the soundtrack of my childhood. My entire family are musicians, and they played Prine classics like...
