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June 7, 2024

Bluets

Now that we’ve reached the month in which spring departs and summer debuts, let me tell you my thoughts of a little flower which began this spring season. This flower is an annual, but giving lasting, perennial pleasure in its sighting. In contrast to the slow, green rise of the daffodil stalks above the ground,... Read More
Essays
June 6, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Jessica Driver

Jessica Driver grew up surrounded by creative and outside-of-the-box thinkers. Her parents were both avid “scrappers” who regularly sought out and found unwanted items and, seeing the potential in them, turned them into something new and loved. Her cousins, too, with whom she was raised, were and are, all of them, artists in their own... Read More
Collage
June 5, 2024

The Encounter

Scene:  Late on a dark night, a blue minivan hauling a closed, rented trailer pulls in to get gas, coffee, and snacks under the bright lights of a truck stop just off the interstate highway in mountainous western Virginia. Cleo (turning off the car, unsnapping her seat belt, opening the door):  Thank goodness.  Time to... Read More
Fiction
June 3, 2024

Inside the Method of Acting with Jamie Gilbert

            Jamie Gilbert has not always been the bold and outgoing human being she is today. She was quite shy in her youth. It was her mother who encouraged her to step out of her shell and try something new when signing up for her middle school electives. Her mom told her she should sign... Read More
Action
June 1, 2024

Bringing Inanimate Objects to Life

Bringing Inanimate Objects to Life In a world where technology dominates and digital entertainment reigns, Anna Timm is pulling the strings to keep the ancient art of puppetry alive. Growing up on a steady diet of Jim Henson’s creations, such as The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, Timm’s love for puppets was ignited at an... Read More
Cover Features
May 16, 2024

Movies You Missed From 20 Years Ago: Troy

Troy (7/10 Rating) Released May 14, 2004 For rent/purchase on all major platforms. Genre: Drama, War, Adventure R: Graphic violence and some sexuality/nudity 2h 43m             Based on Homer’s poem “The Iliad ”, Troy is one of Wolfgang Peterson’s last movies as a director and is likely the best telling of this Greek mythological tale.... Read More
Movies You Missed
May 14, 2024

Singing Again for Wake Forest

Well, not long ago, I sang the National Anthem again for the Demon Deacons, specifically the Wake Forest/Syracuse game. It seems that each time I sing at the Lawrence Joel Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum is unique (I don’t mean some swell-headed uniqueness, but rather, the uniqueness of the day, just as every day of life is... Read More
Essays
May 10, 2024

An Unpalatable Truth

We think we know the people with whom we forge deep friendships.  However,  we only know what our friends choose to reveal.  We might discover a greater truth later or even after they die.  Then we have a choice:  whether to let it shape how we feel about the person. I’ll call my friend Janet. ... Read More
Essays
May 8, 2024

       A different beat…

                       Distance, measured in heart beats rather than miles, loses significance when, pressed against my chest, my cell messages you, you in the dark where your bed saves my space after your sleep comes. My heart seems content, its brief broadcast complete.
Poet's Corner
May 7, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Hannah Barker

As a young child, Hannah Barker had the insatiable urge to create. She loved to draw, read, and write, and she even created a newspaper that she taped to her family’s refrigerator. It wasn’t until her senior year at UVA that she landed upon her medium of choice—embroidery. During the summer before her senior year,... Read More
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