MEDIEVAL SURGERY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE THIRD MILLENNIUM By Dr. Raymond Fenech
MEDIEVAL SURGERY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE THIRD MILLENNIUMBy Dr. Raymond Fenech
Who isn’t overawed by the progress that medicine has made in this third millennium? Yet few people know that basically all that we...
ROUSING BITS OF ASSORTED WHOLES by Joseph O’Day
Rousing Bits of Assorted Wholes
Joseph O’Day
Every December I used to rip out listings of best books of the year from The New York Times and The Boston Globe and store them in the...
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THE OIL FIELD By Edward Bonner
THE OIL FIELD by Edward Bonner It wasn’t just life, this was our world.Rise and shine.Breakfast is at seven in the morning.“Cold cereal and then a dash out the door”Four of my friends and I would...
BREATHING ROOM by Diane Finlayson
Breathing Room
The diagnosis: pneumonia. I receive it the day before my grandmother dies in 1987. I am in South Texas. She is in Omaha. I have inherited three things from her; a love of...
HOW THE FILM THE EXORCIST CAME ABOUT By Dr. Raymond Fenech
HOW THE FILM THE EXORCIST CAME ABOUTby Dr. Raymond Fenech
Part 1
A small group of nuns and priests met the woman in the chapel of a house one June evening. Though it was warm outside,...
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I DO NOT RECALL THE NAME by Sara Wetmore
I DO NOT RECALL THE NAMEby Sara Wetmore
Even after all these years, I think I hate him all the same. Perhaps more now that I have had the time and space to dwell, like...
LAYERS OF FORGIVENESS by Laurie Gelfand
“Children begin by loving their parents; then they
judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
--Oscar Wilde
My once tall, athletic, commanding father hunched over a walker, his prosthetic leg clumping along awkwardly. My three small dogs...
SONOGRAM IN MEDIA RES – By Carla Arellano
SONOGRAM IN MEDIAS RESBy Carla E. Arellano
Today, I said the words, “My abortion…” and I stopped. They tumbled out of my heart and fell out of my lips. I was on a phone call...
CAPTURE HILL No. 49 By Allen Long
CAPTURE HILL #49By Allen Long My brother Danny and I grew up in Arlington, Virginia, in the Sixties and Seventies. Although this was a period of significant social turmoil because of the civil rights movement,...
THE LANDLADY By Robert Steward
THE LANDLADYby Robert Steward Paris, France 2001“I like your clothes,” I said, before taking a sip of my café au lait.“Thank you, Robert.” My landlady touched her headscarf. “I make them myself.”Her silk floral caftan hung...