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Editor’s Choice
September 2023
Essays
Decades after graduation, I gave John Cage another listen.
By David Wilson-Okamura
My husband had been my safe harbor. In the wake of his loss, how would I navigate Reunion Homecoming?
by Susie Colby
To a toddler, there’s no time like the present.
by Brad Blake
How I came to understand the true reason Uncle Dan dropped out.
by Sierra Garcia
Why not take the seat directly across from the famous French philosopher?
by LaDoris Hazzard Cordell
Was I a woman of letters, or only a girl?
by Merrill Joan Gerber
I have plenty of tattoos. You just can’t see them.
by Katie Mauro Zeigler
My simple mistake changed everything.
by Kirstin Chen
And here’s what I think we all need to do right now.
by Michelle Vasquez
On leaving a big life decision up to chance.
by Mary Poindexter McLaughlin
30 years after stumbling through a lost academic quarter, I officially graduated from Stanford University.
by Matt Rodgers
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