Tag: essay
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Lessons in Belonging
By Julie Weissman-Steinbaugh Every year, our family escaped the snowy New York winters to spend a few weeks in Jamaica. Mom and Dad avoided other tourists by grocery shopping at the local open-air market. There were few children with platinum blonde hair and light skin like ours. “Beep, beep,” I hollered without being heard. A…
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Food: A Relationship
By Nicole Zelniker Seven is really too young to really understand germ theory. You will not die if you don’t wash your hands again today. You will be okay if that piece of fruit touches the table before you skewer it on your fork. But your compulsions aren’t rational, and science takes no part. So…