Public Republic

Nancy Ross-Flanigan Photo: YXO The road we took to get to A’oloau was the same road we took to get to Tafuna or Leone or any of the other villages on the island’s west end. If we headed east from Utulei instead of west, that very same road would take us through Fagatogo and Pago […]

Roger Conner Jr It was nearing nightfall in Lexington and I had one last destination to make, an appointment that I had promised myself to keep. I needed to hear the voice of living culture. With the help of the navigation system and internet on my I-phone I eventually found my way to Natasha’s Bistro […]

Sunshining  

Ellie Ivanova Ponti Photo: quartermane Speaking of fashion, I didn’t delve into the question whether style is really a personal expression of self identity or just a convention, a formula offered by society and used by an individual in one combination of elements or another. Is an individual ever free, after all, to use any […]

Claudia Bierschenk Photo: griffithjune49 (Co. Clare, 1997) your chatter carried echoes of an ancient tongue with every cup of tea we sipped away the hours spotting clouds draw in from the hills ready to run out and bring the washing in at any moment you loved to watch sheets flutter like wings on the clothesline

The sand boy