Sharlete Babrudi

Okinawa and the Secret to Graceful Aging

Nonfiction, Writings / By a featured contributor

“My beloved Nana, walk straight,” I would say as I tried to gently straighten her bent back while we walked home on a calm summer evening from “yatakh”: an old tree trunk in the village center where the women sat nightly to exchange news. Her salt and pepper hair was tied up in a white […]

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Wildflowers

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Student Writings / By a featured contributor

It was four years ago when, for the first time, wildflowers stepped into my world. My husband Sevan and I took our boys fishing at Eleven Mile Reservoir. My mind and heart were burdened with anxiety on the drive. Staring blankly out of the car’s window, I was questioning whether my husband and I were

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