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(Submitted by Polina Kozlova) There is no equivalent for the Ukrainian word liut in English. Liut describes a feeling of extreme anger, rage, or ferocity, a state of emotion that reaches the highest degree of fury, sometimes bordering on madness. The word can also describe the overwhelming force of nature, like the liut of frost or a storm. The Ukrainian name for the month of February is “Liutyi” – the fierce or angry month. I hate February. Not because the cold in this mo

Mantoura and her husband, photographed on their wedding day in Bsharri, Lebanon. (Submitted by Mantoura Soffee)  The snow fell slowly and steadily, the way it often does here on the campus hill. Below were the lights of a small city going about its business, down where the wind comes up from the frozen river. Outside the dining hall, a thin line of smoke rose from the bench near the emergency exit. She was already there, her dark hair tucked under a net and a hat, a green col

Some places belong in your family long before they ever belong to you. León was one of them.

This is an intergenerational journey from Croatia to Canada, where leaving home and starting over in a new country proves to be far from what you expect.