Food is on the first level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which means its presence is essential for humans to move on to higher levels of needs such as safety, love and belonging, and more. Section 1 | Food & Affirmation The relationship between food and body is like that of water and plant — …
Flying from Cleveland to Shanghai, I had three connecting flights that amounted to 40 hours of total travel time. By my second flight, I was exhausted but could not fall asleep despite various attempts. I thought I’d try drinking a little bit to let the alcohol do its work and take me into dreamland. I …
A photo of Post sitting on the beach of Lake Erie during Fall of 2020. They’re in a red swimsuit top, blue shorts, and rocking an Oberlin College floppy hat. In their hands are an iced coffee from Dunkin and a plain bagel with cream cheese. They’re smizing and are sunburnt.
Subtopic 1: Eating Out and Single Parenting Growing up, me and my mom rotated around a set selection of restaurants. Among them was Blair Garden, one of our favorites which served mainly Italian style pasta. “Bueno sera!” I would hear every few days before being led to our table by my favorite server. He was …
In Robert Icke’s The Doctor, a hugely popular West End play, a kettle was one of the only props in the entire play. The main character Ruth, played by British idol Juliet Stevenson, noted that “Tea was the currency of love in our house growing up”, and how she always keeps the kettle hot because …
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The Kosher truck I couldn’t tell you when my family started observing the laws of Kashrut, but we can safely say that it was many, many generations ago. When we stopped keeping Kosher is easier to track. My great-grandparents Abe and Mina were born in New York in 1912, and 1911, respectively, the children of …
As I sit in my room, Air Pods nestled in my ears, all I hear is the pressing sound of silence. I put my playlist on shuffle and await which songs will play, ready to skip to the one I actually want to hear, yet welcoming a challenge: does the playlist know me better than I …
After my first breakup, I was in pieces. I was inconsolable– not that there was anyone around to console me. I had been inconveniently dumped in the days right before my older brother moved out of the house, my younger brother went off to summer camp, and my parents left for a month-long cross-country road …
Although it’s still nine o’clock in the morning, I feel terribly hot. The sun helps grow vegetables, but it just melts humans. Today, we are expecting a family of three coming from Tokyo to visit our farm. Since their three-year-old daughter had never experienced farming, we suggested that she could harvest red radish with us. …
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