Thru-hiker Dann Hailey, trail name Night Crawler, first gained fame when popular vlogger Early Riser
Month: June 2018
How a Muslim cemetery became a battleground for America’s soul
Farmersville, Texas, lies about 35 miles northeast of Dallas
“They said we put each other on a list”
Adama Bah’s story begins at Fajr time on March 24, 2005. That morning, agents from the FBI,
A cat’s story
I try to stay around the doors. That way I know I won’t miss them. Although I spend much of my time alarmed by bugs and leaves, I do crave affection and I try to get it every day. So I wait near the doors.
Off I go
Join me on the trail, both metaphorical and literal, as I blaze a way through my next phase of life, as a writer, as an activist, as a person of faith, as a traveler, and whatever else I prove to be.
A secular Christmas
In the living room of the house in which I grew up there was a wood-burning fireplace surrounded by white bricks. Every December it was the center of all things Christmas. The armchair that stood year-round to the right of the fireplace was moved to make room for the Christmas tree, usually a six-footer with the pine aroma of the holiday.
First-degree mischling
On a visit to the Houston Holocaust Museum I learned that had I lived in Nazi-ruled Germany I would have been classified as a “first-degree mischling.”
Not quite woke but pissed as hell
Call me a snowflake. I own it. At some point in the latter days of the 2016 election, some right-wing Twitter users created an artificial
Ruth Nasrullah 