Posts published in “Essays”
December — It had been raining all day. I was working with a new medic, which always requires a little more energy. We were on our way to a non-emergent call that sounded like bullshit…
“What's the matter with you?” they keep asking. “Why on earth would you come to Indiana from California in the middle of the winter?” The beer is cheaper, I tell them. The beer's cheaper, but…
A computer engineer by profession, Salam Talib had moonlighted in Bagdad as a translator and driver for foreign progressive journalists during the early years of the US invasion and occupation.
They came to California by FedEx in September, two dozen grapevine specimens collected on a government fruit-collecting trip to the Republic of Georgia. They will eventually be rooted at the US Department of Agriculture’s tree…
Using music as medicine goes back to Antiquity and beyond. The Greeks were not alone in recognizing that music was powerful stuff, capable of not only calming the body, but also of rousing it. Administered…