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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- 5 days ago
- 5 min
Bloomsday: Heady With Joyce
The author, dressed for the occasion, at the turn of this century Bloomsday is June 16th. A commemoration of the Irish writer, James...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- 6 days ago
- 4 min
"Minari": Peppery, Bitter and Resilient
The soil's rich color, "that's why I picked this place," says Jacob (Steven Yuen). "Because of the dirt color?" his wife, Monica (Yeri...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 6
- 5 min
Lawn Fetish: A Social Climb
The perfect lawn is the ticket to social inclusion in New York. In the author's courtyard in Portugal, grass merely peeks through...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 26
- 1 min
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 20
- 1 min
A Slow and Steady Walk Home
A hoe set on his stooped shoulder, my neighbor’s trudge past my kitchen window pricked up my ears most mornings. Most mornings. I would...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 17
- 2 min
Portugal: Got Jabbed
The firefighters (bombeiros) station in Oliveira do Hospital, Coimbra District, where vaccinations are administered upstairs COVID-19...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 15
- 1 min
Black Man of Happiness
Boys in False River, Louisiana in July 1934 (Photo by Alan Lomax) Lomax Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 7
- 1 min
Mami's Hands
The author and her mother, Emanda Elizabeth Kirkwood, in July 1957 at the neighborhood Astoria Pool in Queens, New York Mami’s Hands As a...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 5
- 1 min
May 1st Tradition in Portugal
Yellow broom is hung on doors and gates on May 1st in an ancient tradition in central Portugal that, some say, guards against hunger.
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