At 1 p.m. on a recent afternoon, the doors open and five regulars trickle in, taking their places at the computers, in the rocking chair and at the table with the ipad. Most of them are children living in the Enos Park neighborhood and students at McClernand Elementary School. The oldest of the bunch proudly […]
Elizabeth Farrar
Elizabeth Farrar, a graduate of Springfield High School, is a senior majoring in French at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
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Raise your hand if you like wasabi
Ameilya walks in, goes straight to the sink and then takes her place at one of two tables. While waiting for her cohorts, she indulges me to answer my questions. She talks excitedly about making noodles. “It gets messy. It’s so cool!” She goes on about folding and making hills and whisking egg yolks. I […]
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‘A beautiful married woman with stature and poise’
Mitchell’s grandmother had a way about her. I remember it like it was yesterday. I couldn’t help but be in absolute awe of the way she wore her sunglasses, the way she served me her coffee, and the way she laughed at my jokes. She had a great laugh. I can’t remember the name of […]
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Get out the map
“If a map is accurate and you can read it, you won’t get lost. If you know a culture, you will know your way around in the life of a society.” — Dr. Clyde Kluckhohn, Mirror for Man (1952). In a recent article in the New York Times Magazine, 19-year-old Hyder Akbar recounts the interrogation […]
