by Alan Stoskopf and Tatyana Tsyrlina-Spady | Apr 9, 2023 | Nonfiction
Norman Brigade officers and Ukrainian children during a humanitarian aid operation.Norman Brigade, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Introduction Children throughout time have shared the impulse to tell others about their lives. When given the chance, they will draw...
by Max White | Jan 18, 2023 | Nonfiction
The United Nation’s aid convoy to Sare in East Timor Last August, Pope Francis appointed a new Cardinal, Virgilio do Carmo da Silva, from the tiny country of East Timor. East Timor had been a colony of Portugal until it was brutally occupied by Indonesia. I am not...
by Consequence | Dec 11, 2022 | Nonfiction
We’ve often been told that the truth is in the details. After all, details are what give shape to an individual life and clarify it amidst a crowd of people, places, and events. When it comes to things we experience in times of war or geopolitical conflict, some...
by Andrew Zubiri | Nov 4, 2022 | Nonfiction
abaca, n.1) from the Tagalog abaka via the Spanish abacá (see also Treaty of Paris, 1898) 2) a strong fiber derived from Musa textilis, a plant of the banana family; also “Manila hemp” 3) now mainly used in paper products and traditional Filipino clothing, such as...
by C. L. Hoang | Aug 16, 2022 | Nonfiction
Tuscarawas County Courthouse, New Philadelphia, Ohio My small, beat-up suitcase in hand, I stood on a sun-drenched sidewalk in downtown New Philadelphia, Ohio, wondering what to do next. Surly buildings loomed over blocks of deserted streets, a reminder that it was...
by Woody Lewis | Aug 1, 2022 | Nonfiction
Author’s Note: Technology has always enabled war. Throughout history, the nation-states that created new weapons through innovation greatly expanded their geopolitical influence. From gunpowder, to the airplane, to the atomic bomb—advances in technology have been the...
by Lee Doyle | May 31, 2022 | Nonfiction
Take these seeds and put them in your pockets so at least sunflowerswill grow when you all lie down here.— A Ukrainian citizen My grandfather worked as a seed breeder and farmer at Fordhook Farm in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Sometime in the late 1930s, he crossed the...
by Sarah Sassoon | Apr 16, 2022 | Nonfiction
How We Drink Coffee When It Rains War by Sarah Sassoon https://consequenceforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/How_We_Drink_Coffee_When_it_Rains_War_Audio_-_Sarah_Sassoon.m4a We weren’t expecting it to rain, not when you can still see blue sky. It comes in one...
by Katherine Shehadeh | Mar 18, 2022 | Nonfiction
Booza by Katherine Shehadeh https://consequenceforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Booza.m4a Stretchy ice cream, now this is a first. My mother-in-law, a powerful but warm matriarch, who has somehow managed to raise eight kids (nine if you count me) to meet any...
by Olha Poliukhovych | Mar 8, 2022 | Nonfiction
Ukrainian soldier rescuing a tiny baby from the devastation caused by Russian shelling near Irpin in Kyiv oblast | Photo: Timothy Fadek, CNN Author’s Note: I’m thankful to Askold Melnyczuk whose words made me want to write in the midst of this war in Ukraine. I’m also...
