Hello USR members and guests, We’re working on a site upgrade that we think you’ll like. We’ll keep you posted on our progress. In the meantime, we published consistently solid work over the past week. In the interview “Words of Wisdom: Shirley Romero Otero,” Lindsay Deen discusses a broad range of topics with a dedicated educator and visionary. Shirley Romero Otero points out that when kids leave their communities “and deal
What people do in their spare time is their business, not mine, and good for them. I don’t ask questions. I have no reason to. When the going gets too weird or aggravating for me, I gamble, which is just what I did last weekend. My job was pissing me off, and my girlfriend had been nagging me for weeks on end about everything under the sun and then some.
“It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.” – Ponyboy referencing Cherry in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I
←Chapter Twenty June 3, 1895: Beth sent me a letter from Chicago. It is the first I’ve heard from her since she and the others left eight years ago. She and Walker have both had children. The babies were born on the same day: May 5 of this year. Dorothy-a name that seems to persist, despite its associations-and Owen are the only first-born Otherworld children to be born outside the
Here it is. Five in the morning and I am chugging coffee in a desperate attempt to get out from under my drooping eyelids. I just need my four-month old daughter, Stella, to sleep for a few more minutes before I need to be on. Being a parent sometimes feels like being a talk show host. You have to entertain, keep things moving, and deal with the tears while presenting
The Arts community in Colorado Springs, CO came together to support their local Hear, Here! Poetry Slam team. The team worked together to produce excellent material. If you like what you see and read, you can check out the CD online. As a result of these efforts, some talented artists and the Hear, Here! Team won Group Piece Finals at the National Poetry Slam in Oakland. Below, we’ve captured one of
