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UNCATEGORIZED:  The more familiar you become with a place, the more difficult it is, sometimes, to write about it – everything seems more natural to you, less observable.  More »

FALL 2011 CORRESPONDENTS:  Announcing the Fall 2011 Glimpse Correspondents!   More »

EDITORIAL BLOG:  Pulling back the curtain on the editorial process.   More »

CORRESPONDENTS BLOGS:  The problem was this: the piece took place in my head.  More »

FEATURE: LONG FORM:  Lauren was trying to get inside this story with metaphors and descriptions of abstract concepts, sort of swirling in an emotional whirlpool around the story instead of getting into the thick of it.  More »

MEXICO:  I can’t quite describe the horror I felt when my son came to me sucking on a lollipop at the end of his first day of daycare in Mexico.  More »

ETHICAL DILEMMA:  I had come out of the office and saw a colleague sitting across the school yard under a palm tree with two female students in front of her with arms outstretched. She raised a long, flat metal rod and hit each of their arms in quick succession.   More »

ENVIRONMENT:  It was the flu that first led me to search out Parcela, an urban garden, and to begin a journey to better understand the varying flora surrounding me.   More »

FEATURE: LONG FORM:  And so sometimes without even stopping to drop off bags, we fight for a table, order a round of beers and watch as the table heaps with ceviche, causa, chicarrones. I always start with causa de pulpo al olivo.  More »