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When I was 13, I ran away from home with my 16-year-old brother. We were living with our dad in Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Our mom was in Delaware. The day…
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When I was 20, I dropped out of college and drove a car from Chicago to Guatemala City. I didn’t know two words of Spanish, but I spent seven months…
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On an ordinary day in rural Niger, sheep are everywhere.Fences, pens, corrals? Nah. Yours, mine, and ours mix on streets where they stay alive on whatever…
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I’m convinced that meeting the parents often happens over a meal so you have something to stick in your mouth—besides your foot. But sometimes, that’s…
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My mom grew up eating lard sandwiches. No meat or cheese. Just lard on bread. As a teenager, I didn’t understand why. We always had food. There were just…
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On a sunny Saturday morning in California, my spouse Ryan and I arrived at the Chabad House of Oakland for Shabbat. The website had promised that the 10…
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After a week of being sedated in the ICU with a feeding tube down my throat, I awoke hungry and confused. I had lost 20 pounds, and there was a drainage…
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When my oldest son was about six months old, I took him to his first Royals game. Now, with my first kid, I was not comfortable openly nursing. So, I had…
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I was in the Hispanic food aisle in Walmart when I heard a white woman say, “What is this?” I had found the couscous to make tabbouleh in the same…
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In college, I was the girl who would low-key judge people for playing Christmas music the second Thanksgiving was over. It has led people, to believe that…