Emily Articulated: Family (Dis)Functions
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Let me introduce you to some characters. Now these characters, although not all real people in my life, are certainly real members of someone’s family …
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Emily Articulated: Buck teeth and a consumerist society
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
There is something that happens to almost all humans in their lifetime, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, gender,or religion. It’s an experience that unites us …
Emily Articulated: Drinking with Elaine
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Elaine Amsterdam was standing on her porch smoking a Marlboro black cigarette in a long, flowy nightgown and a scarf draped asymmetrically across her petite …
Emily Articulated: Friluftsliv
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Have you ever considered how words make you feel? How some words are much more than mere definitions, but rather, have power to evoke strong …
Emily Articulated: Adult friendships and cur-Rent events
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Let me tell you about one of my best friends.
I met Jamie in the creepy way you make friends as an adult, through a …
Emily Articulated: Friggin’ Fruit Salad
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
You know what I love? Friggin’ fruit salad.
Fruit salad is quite possibly one of the healthiest, most flavorful and inherently versatile things we can …
Emily Articulated: Political apathy and the old sugar maple tree
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Do you remember the first thing you really cared about? Not the thing you sort-of cared about, like securing the pink Starbursts from the grubby …
Emily Articulated: Chasing Rainbows
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
I have a story, perhaps my most vulnerable yet. It’s a story I’ve held close, nestled against my heart, shared only with a few friends …
Emily Articulated: Dinner with Joe
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Joe is a patron at the bar I regularly tend. He is an 87-year-old Italian man, who, at full standing height, reaches just above my …
Emily Articulated: Keep Calm and Leave a Damn Tip
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Finally, I’ve been thwarted; a study released that I can’t put a cheeky, it’s-not-a-Millennial-thing-it’s-an-everyone-thing spin on. Millennials have scored lowest in a standard near to …
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