The crown fit for a champion
How Florida’s largest trees won their accolades, and those who make sure they live to fight another round … Read moreThe crown fit for a champion
Tag: Florida
Another blue world
Florida’s springs support one of the nation’s most expansive underwater cave systems, but development threatens their future … Read moreAnother blue world
Mooncake
Hou Yi, the brave archer, shot down nine of ten sunsÂ
That scorched the great earth with fiery tongues. … Read moreMooncake
Threading her way to the top
Ziba Ahmadi greets her client with a warm smile. Her black bouncy curls occupy space as she moves through the small salon into a room with two coal-colored leather chairs that look like they would be in a hair salon. But Ahmadi isn’t a hair stylist; she’s an eyebrow threader … Read moreThreading her way to the top
Losing Him Twice
I’m afraid of my dad’s bedroom. The bare, unlit space smells of old urine and disease, holding nothing but a bed stripped of its sheets and a streak of blood staining the wall. A weathered wheelchair sits in the bathroom; on top, a folded cotton shirt and shorts he was supposed to wear the morning he was sent to hospice. I prefer to keep Dad’s bedroom door closed. It allows me to pretend he’s inside