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By Jessica Bronder This piece was previously published on Jessica's blog here, and has been lightly edited from the original. Hello Movie Lovers! My name is Jessica. I work in television Post-Production, I received my undergraduate degree in Film Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and I
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By Anonymous My boyfriend and I being together is a modern day phenomenon. In any other time period, our love would have been forbidden or impossible — I am a privileged white girl from coastal California; he is the son of a bankrupted textile factory owner from central India. Of course, the only
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By Valerie Stunning This piece has been lightly edited from its original version, which originally Valerie Stunning originally published on her site in two parts. Countless first responders, firefighters, search and rescue workers, EMT’s, law enforcement officers, ER nurses and doctors, military
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By Chato Hazelbaker In their recent piece “What Critics Get Wrong About the Ivy League,” Jeffery Sonnenfeld and Philip J. Hanlon open, “Barely a day passes without colleges scolded in the headlines over admissions or athletics and endowments or education and expression.” They go on to describe what
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By “Leonard Johnston” Part 1: Who I Am For many people, thirteen feels like a special age. It is the burgeoning chaos of people coming into themselves: Most everyone is thinking about dating, who they like, and, well, everything in a classic coming-of-age movie. The difference for me, though, was
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By Kristin Ohlson This article was originally published in the online magazine “Full Grown People” in March of 2022 (a totally normal time), and has been lightly edited from its original version. I first saw Frank when I was twelve, a jittery small-town California girl starting my first week at a
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By Rafe Gomez When selling products or services, sales professionals know that a close is made possible by proving that what you offer will deliver the promised results. Documentation that a product/service can successfully address a potential buyer’s needs, goals, and challenges can include
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By D.A.K. I have worked in home care for almost 10 years now, and I have been a billing manager for over three years. I have learned to become an expert at this stuff. I have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to insurance policy and regulations — and plenty of it has been ugly. So
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By Clare Ashcraft My job is to seek first to understand, then to be understood. As a Bridging Coordinator and Media Analyst at AllSides, I am steeped daily in the best arguments on the political left and right, and I fervently believe understanding the other side is necessary to address the
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By Stout Cortez About a decade ago, I switched careers to start working as a software engineer. I was particularly gifted in the field I was leaving — graduate-school dropout — but I found the compensation to be less than lucrative. At the age of 26, after a chance conversation with a college
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By Mark Rapier This article was originally published by Mark on LinkedIn and Medium, and has been lightly edited from the original. Every four years, America is reacquainted with the Electoral College. While it is generally understood, why it exists is less well known. Purpose and History. When the
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By Kendall White, with photographs by the author This piece has been lightly edited from the original, which was published by The Claremont Independent. Follow up articles are here and here. Claremont SJP and PDfA instagrams. The morning of October 7, I donned an inside-out shirt, surgical mask,