Nothing says “Christmas!” like your face

Now, what’s the meaning of the season, again?
Ahh, the Christmas cards. As early as last week, they began arriving in droves, wrapped in brightly colored envelopes and embellished with gold and glitter. Almost all of them featured a photo of the sending family on the cover. I never thought much of it until today, when a [...]

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The Inner City Meets Suburbia

I can’t read the lettering. My affluent, suburban, and otherwise sheltered and privileged upbringing didn’t provide me the kind of know-how needed to decipher graffiti. It was never a necessary skill, thank God, for determining if I was in safe territory or not. But a few days ago, I noticed a large black swath of [...]

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