by Mairead Hadley | Apr 4, 2013 | The Public Humanist
Horseracing, like hip-hop, is a culture, entirely of its own. Each is formed on the edges of society, producing a rhythm balanced by struggle and persistence. And each, uncovered, reveals an explosion of unexpected power and potential. These are two largely...
by Carolyn Cushing | Apr 11, 2013 | The Public Humanist
My uneasy feelings about marriage became even more complicated this past November when I got the call that no one wants to get. “He didn’t make it.” The police officer was telling me that John, my partner of 12 years, had died in a car accident in...
by Hayley Wood | Apr 19, 2013 | The Public Humanist
The first woman leader of a twentieth-century Western superpower died on Monday, April 8 at the age of 87. A conservative politician having been trained at Oxford as a chemist, Margaret Thatcher was a woman who described herself in uncompromising terms: “I am...
by Sharon Kennedy | Apr 24, 2013 | The Public Humanist
In January this year I went to Ghana in West Africa for three weeks. I am a professional storyteller and I perform many kinds of stories including folktales and historical stories for children and adults. Sometimes the desire to collect folktales instead of just...
by Juno Lamb | Apr 26, 2013 | The Public Humanist
It’s National Poetry Month, and while we could drink our way through an entire month of pure poetic delight without the well ever running dry, we (whisper) might not want to stop reading stories. Or, we might feel more at ease reading stories. Poems might be for...
