by JL Jacobs | Feb 6, 2019 | Memoir
Art: Iced Web by Robert Ferrier AN EASY CHAT ABOUT NOTHING My wife always thought that someday I’d be a big success. I taught Russian literature and linguistics at the local college and held seminars every other weekend to make some extra money. Then came the...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 21, 2018 | Memoir
Art: Courtesy of Thurman J. Williams of Our Cotter, Ar LITTLE BOY LOST, OLD MAN FOUND I was born March 21st, 1942, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, the first child of Ernie Edward Wright and Alice Erlene Collins, who was always called Aline by all who knew her. My full...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 12, 2018 | Memoir
Art: Cyril Larvor, @cyrillarvor MEMOIR: FROM THE LIFE OF A KASHMIRI WOMAN BY NYLA ALI KHAN “Faith Consists in Believing When It Is Beyond the Power of Reason to Believe”—Voltaire I would venture to say that subscribing to religious traditions and maintaining an...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 7, 2018 | Art, Memoir
Art: Muted Tears by Susan McCollum, @susan_mccollum_art WOMEN AS HARBINGERS OF PEACE AND CONSTRUCTION IN KASHMIR Twenty-eight years of armed insurgency and counter insurgency in Kashmir; the devastation rendered by militaristic discourse; the consequent sequestration...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 20, 2017 | Memoir
Art: Between earth and sky by Silvia Forzoni, @silvia_forzoni BECOMING KASHMIRI As I write this personal narrative at a geographical and physical remove from my land of origin, the Valley of Kashmir, it is not halcyon time or idyllic days of my childhood that haunt my...
