Natalie Audelo

Language is basically magic. Using a series of incantations, vibrations in the air, you can make someone see something, feel something, believe someth

At Gertrude’s, I’ve gotten to know a group of people I might never see outside the walls of the restaurant. It’s community building in the most basic

By the final minutes of the game, most people had filtered out, while a few—the true friends, the literal family, and us—hovered around the projection

The cost of convenience is vitality. You can have a lot of things done for you in the modern world — and many of them are great time savers! — but the

“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand

To love humans is not optimism; it requires an unrelenting, deliberate faith, the stubborn act of catching every dropped match and insisting it can st