[Editor’s Note: Lorna Dee Cervantes contracted Covid a year ago. Her 2020-21 Facebook posts, even heavily abridged here, offer a personal journey...
Journal of the Plague Year (Abridged)
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“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
—Chris Jami
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“Literary” on the Move, trailblazing a “new normal.”
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- Literary Film and TV
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Taxi Tales: Las Vegas
Las Vegas holds a special place in my heart, somewhere between skipping a beat and bleeding out. Vegas is the girl who hid in the back of the class...
Visiting the Pont Du Gard, An Ancient Roman Monument
The resounding impact of my steps as I walk beneath these mighty arches made me think I could almost hear the voices of those who built them. I was...
The Five-Star Plate
Today, I cried at the nearby mercado here in Oaxaca, Mexico, when I tasted the blue-corn tortillas with huevos con rajas verdes. I’m no foodie and...
Split25
This past year is the one that the tourism industry will try to forget. The COVID-19 pandemic ruined travels in an unprecedented way, but with...
H & M
Despite efforts to the contrary, I, too, succumbed to the Meghan & Harry interview with Her Royal Highness Might-As-Well-Be Queen Oprah. Like...
Green Mountain Trail
Isolation has always been my love language, but as soon as I’m stationed overseas (which happens A LOT) or told to social distance, I’m compelled to...
Humanity’s Super Power – Part I
Writers at Large (W@L) came to me by climbing through the basement window—not walking through the front door. Three highly unlikely, unrelated,...
THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT: Spoiler Alert!
Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved immersing myself in a story and a world not my own. So, when friends began talking about The Queen’s Gambit...
ME, MYSELF, & WHY
(Riff—a phrase synonymous with tune, refrain, groove, sample, jam, strum, noodle—only here "riff" plays with words instead of lyrics or strings.)...
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