“’I thought this wouldn’t happen in my lifetime,’ Fitka said. ‘I thought there would always be fish in the river.’”
Krista Stevens
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Bringing up the Bodies
“What they would be doing at top speed was exhuming human remains.”
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Flipping Grief
“This is loss. Memory, damp and compact as clods of earth, is dried out in the marketplace and burned as turf.”
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Weave Your Own Coffin
“Green burial, she said, ‘offers so much for the person being buried, for the family saying goodbye, for the community surrounding the cemetery, for the very earth itself.’”
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San Francisco’s 24-Hour Diner Stops the Cosmic Clock
“. . .but then there it is: a strikingly red building, a flash of weathered neon, an improbable promise issued since 1970. We Never Close.”
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Matthew Perry’s Radical Honesty About His Addiction Battle Helped Us All
“But he did get sober. By the time his book came out almost exactly a year ago, he’d been clean 18 months.”
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25-Year Lasagna, Special Ops Oatmeal, and the Survival Food Boom
“He says he has about a year’s worth of food, stashed in various locations in his property, so that if someone breaks in to steal it, they would not be able to take all of it at once.”
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The Broken Clock
“It will no longer be enough to look back at what historically grew or lived in a place, but to anticipate, through modeling, what will be there next.”
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Mere Belief
“One of the pivotal purposes of memoir is to unveil the shades of meaning that exist in what we believe.”