An eight-year-old girl stares at the camera, the hot West African sun splashing across her shoulders like a translucent cape. Tightly braided hair hugs her scalp, accentuating a delicate forehead, a slightly furrowed brow. She wears a thin white wrap fastened around her neck with a fraying fiber cord. She shoots the lens an expression that almost approaches a smile, …
Winter nights at my home mean a small glass of red wine for the grownups, a warm mug of hot cocoa topped with marshmallows for my boys. Twilight brings fantastic bedtime stories, a cozy comforter, a plump, lazy dog at the foot of a soft bed. These kinds of comforts aren’t shared by every member of our Las Vegas community. …
A young Navajo man sits outside the most popular breakfast place in town. Niyol sits cross-legged most mornings as I walk my boys to school, sits with the same ripped jeans, the same black sweatshirt that speaks of a thousand nights near the river. Sometimes I raid my penny jar and give him a small handful. My penny jar sits …
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