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by Tom Poole
PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENT
I find it odd when people tell me I have an accent.
I guess I never noticed it before. For some reason, people think I sound like I’m from Canada. They say the way I pronounce my vowels is strange, which is interesting because I think the same way about them.
This week my […]
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by Emma Wood
COLUMNIST
We met a jewel of a man in the Louvre. I slouched beside him on a bench in the middle of Italian Paintings, an island of respite built for the art-weary. My museum buddy and I had seen the Greek artifacts; we had drawn the Winged Victory and Venus de Milo, […]
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CHICAGO
When CNN broke a story earlier this month that showed reports of black heart disease patients dying at a much higher rate than equally sick white patients, there shouldn’t have been any surprise. The story—on racial inequalities in the American healthcare system—is an old one, and the reasons behind it are manifold and debatable. […]
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Last weekend a couple of friends and I headed to Paris for the least traditional Thanksgiving ever. The Mayflower was booked so we went with RyanAir, which was kind of like tuberculosis because it was airborne and inconvenient as hell. Our flight departed at five-something on Thanksgiving morning, so we had the genius plan of […]
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by Emma Wood
France
It’s not my calendar but instead my grammar teacher, Madame de Pous, who serves as my measure of time. Blue eyeliner brightens her leathery face as each Monday she reminds us: “You’ve been here four weeks now … five … six. If you haven’t started speaking French yet, it’s time. You didn’t come […]
