Tag: coffee
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“Panama disease”: A pandemic…for bananas
Elizabeth RudaChicago, Illinois, United States The average person does not go to the grocery store, look around the produce section, and think, “Wow, these foods could be extinct within the next few years.” Yet extinction is possible in the case of the most common cultivar of banana sold today, the Cavendish.1 At the same time…
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On the death of a hospital volunteer
Bonnie SalomonLake Forest, Illinois, United States Golf course greens were not for you—too quiet. No cruise ships to sail—too boring. Retirement held no enchantment for you. Instead, you chose us— —the motley ER crew—hardly noticed, gliding through white coats and scrubs. “Just made fresh coffee,”—your calling card. How many cups after fifteen years? You were…
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Reporting a pandemic
Francis ChristianSaskatoon, Canada Dust to dust and doom delivered by newscasts dripping irony in considered doses of despair; feigning knowledge of ignorance, feigning ignorance of absent panic and knowledge from experts claiming uncertainty. But the web of knowledge weaves chiffoned layers for me and you and John, openly uncertain, uncertainly open to imperfect measure of…
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A coffee many years later
Drita Puharić, MSN Makarska, Croatia I’m sitting in a small cafe bar waiting for my friend Marija whom I haven’t seen since high school. She left with her husband for Canada after the war. How long had it been since we’d seen each other? It seems like an eternity… I can’t wait to see…