By: Connie Woodring This article focuses on ageism and its effects on women and society. Women over 40 typically concern themselves with menopause, mid-life crises, caring for their elderly parents and perhaps face lifts. Ageism and becoming old and vulnerable…
By: Bill Portela Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and conservatives. Whites, Blacks, Asians, or Hispanics. Smothered-harried workers, or instead, yacht-basking hedge fund managers behind gated communities. With which of these extended-virtual clans do we associate? Oh, that’s right. We human-types are pinnacle…
By: Mehreen Ahmed Over the Hindu Kush Mountains, a bountiful, lush valley, existed once, famously known as The Indus Valley. Central to the Dravidian civilisation, this Indus Valley flourished by the River Indus, within the enchanting citadels of Harappa and…
By: Rhienna Renee Guedry The work of production in book publishing is the work of white space and the imperceivable. To quote Joe Sparano: “Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.” And yet it can be challenging to identify…
By: Gaither Stewart Whether revisionists and debunkers agree or not, the Café de Flore on Paris’ Boulevard Saint Germain is a living institution. Since its founding in 1870 it has existed as a café and a second home for French-speaking…
By Revathi Ganeshsundaram Most female fans of Jane Austen, and of her classic novel Pride and Prejudice, would have been in love with Mr. Darcy at some stage of their lives or the other (or perhaps all their lives) although…
By: Ken W. Simpson Widowed skies with empty eyesindecently occupiedby tabloid cultures of corruptionengulfed by tyrannywhere the future doesn’t beckonand the day is gone. America only pretends to be a democracy. The people are not free and equal. They are…
By: Ken W. Simpson An equivocation quiveringbeside a lonely line of transientscaught fleeing from Gatesand forced to wait to be injectedwhile trying to remain safeas recommended by specialistsand refuse to be poisonedby this deadly untested vaccine. American governments have had…
By: Ram Govardhan Much before Darwin’s unpaid voyages around the southern hemisphere, from the very dawn of ethical contemplation, lying has been a topic for serious reflection despite the fact that Homo sapiens had taken to lying as instinctively as…
By Alessandro Romero It didn’t hit me when I got out of bed this morning to toss a couple of ground coffee mini- mountains into my French press, or when I looked out the window to see yet another cloud-filled…