Fifty Feet from the F-22
I could feel the pressure waves reverberating through my body. They started with a tingling in my feet, raced up my torso and stopped in my chest. I was keenly aware of every heartbeat,...
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Life in Udaipur: I Belonged in it
My fingers burned and my palms were glued to the rusty metal handle as I held tight, afraid of being tossed from the doorless auto rickshaw during the bumpy ride. My purple shirt had turned black as...
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Drink It In
Steam rises from an open air cauldron; wafting sweet and spicy aromas around the air, fighting to mask each other. A dark curly haired man sits cross-legged on a layout of blankets, laden with baskets....
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Stormy Faces of My Past
My grandparents live in dusty, old photo albums. Like dreams I’ve never had, I see pictures of my grandmother holding my infant form and my grandfather sitting...
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Breaking the Ice
The snowshoe hike through the Rocky Mountains in Estes Park, Colorado was supposed to 'warm us up' for skiing the next day, but as the wind hurled chunks of snow at my defenseless 14 year old self,...
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Will I Get A Signal If I Climb A Big Tree?
It was mid-April, when school was entering its final throes and summer was tickling at the edge of our fancies. Determined to keep my siblings and me from staring at screens for all of our week-long...
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