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In the Stillness of Winter

It was one of those January days when everything seems layered in shades of white: a moody grey-white sky brushed by […]

“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the

There’s always something magical about the first snowfall of the year. Of course it wasn’t Buffalo’s first, nor was it

A five-minute walk from the house where I grew up, you can look down along the banks of the Niagara River

For decades, longer than I’ve been alive, the corner of Webster Street in North Tonawanda, New York, was home to

What a month September has been! For the first week, I was in London, then I went to New York the

It’s February and I walked by a blooming camelia bush yesterday, the soft pink petals weighted down with drops of

Christmas Eve as a child meant sliding around in slippers and tights under a velvet Christmas-coloured dress on my grandparents’

On a late sunny morning, my mom, Jorge and I took a short drive over to the North Tonawanda City

The morning of July 13, we (my parents, brother and Jorge) woke up at Lazy Acres camp, enjoyed a giant

“She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be