Children in an apartment complex travel from apartment to apartment to see what people are making for a dumpling festival, and the findings are delicious.
Category Archives: Archives
In Defense of Food
How the Western diet came to be, how it damaged us, and how we can fix it.
Firekeeper’s Daughter
A crime thriller that is also a survey of struggles: between identities, families, cultures, and the groups we form.
Killers of the Flower Moon
A story from the 1920s, about how the world’s richest people were becoming the world’s most murdered.
National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian is a cultural and educational entity. They care for one of the world’s largest collections of Native artifacts, such as objects and photographs, spanning the entire Western Hemisphere.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #54
The Non-fiction Feature: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Fiction Spot: Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
The Product Spot: National Museum of the American Indian
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #53
The Non-fiction Feature: The Politics of Medicaid by Laura Katz Olson
The Memoir Spot: Cost of Living by Emily Maloney
The Product Spot: KFF – Medicaid 101
KFF – Medicaid 101
A recent and useful primer on Medicaid and its impact.
The Politics of Medicaid
An examination of how Medicaid came to be, and the political and monetary forces that shape it today.
Cost of Living
Essays about the very guts of the medical industrial complex, and the many struggles that our healthcare system forces upon its patients.