by Allison Simpson | Apr 18, 2021 | Community Letter
At some point in January I sat down to write this monthly community letter and realized that taking the time to write it would mean getting even more behind on a litany of looming deadlines, so I decided to wait a month. When I reopened the document in...
by Allison Simpson | Dec 17, 2020 | Community Letter
Versión en español. Metaphor In a Red Suit On Christmas Day at some point in my mid-20s, I was taking my afternoon walk under the relentless Ohio snow when I realized the holidays no longer dazzled me as they used to. I still enjoyed giving and receiving presents and,...
by Allison Simpson | Nov 18, 2020 | Community Letter
Versión en español. Here Comes the Sun When I was a ninth grader back in Caracas, we read Gabriel García Márquez’s No One Writes to the Colonel as I was learning to engage with books by underlining what I liked and summarizing my reactions in the blank space bordering...
by Tiffany McIntyre | Sep 23, 2020 | Community Letter
Versión en español. The Happiness Trap As the pandemic continues and we are all—to our own degree—faced with the results of long-term isolation from family and friends, many of us are finding happiness to be scarcer than it used to be, and perhaps we wonder if...
by Tiffany McIntyre | Aug 25, 2020 | Community Letter
Versión en español. The Science of Love As Nate and I celebrate our twentieth wedding anniversary this month, I’ve been thinking about what it is that makes our presence in each other’s lives so vital to our happiness and sense of identity. Being an artist, I have...
by Tiffany McIntyre | Jul 27, 2020 | Community Letter
Versión en español. Diego For months now the COVID-19 pandemic has felt like an abstract menace. It’s been the creature, unseen in the shadows, that watches my husband Nate, our sons William and Santiago, and me as we stay home trying to protect ourselves from...