Work [not stress] Is Worship
We live in a nation that places a high value on hard work and effort, but there are ways, to avoid the stress related cyclical disease of illness and health. To reach a stable plateau, coexistence between stress and relaxation is essential.
Smoking Is Bad For You, and Other Revelations
Growing up, I always loathed the smell of cigarette smoke. I watched my grandmother smoke pack after pack, and found myself escaping to the far reaches of her house just to escape the smell of Pal Malls in the morning...
SIZE IS RELATIVE
Four years at school left me taller,
lots of luggage to take home...
Our Need For One Another
Everyone has, to some degree or another, experienced human interaction. Communicating and being with other people is one of the fundamental requirements for human beings. Imagine a world in which we lived isolated from those around us, not acknowledging our fellow creatures...
Letter from the Fertile Field e-team
By now, you are probably well into the second half of your semester/quarter in school, finally spotting that brilliant light at the end of the tunnel: spring. You are sitting in your lecture hall or classroom dreaming about...
PAPER MATCHES
My aunts washed dishes while the uncles
squirted each other on the lawn with
garden hoses. Why are we in here,
I said, and they are out there?...
Block Rockin' Beats and Radical Feminism
Have you ever been to a concert and had a moment of epiphany? I was at a Le Tigre show not too long ago, dancing and singing and having a great time, and...
Letters
19 times the ones who led and
19 times the souls that bled
19 times they heard the call and
19 times they saved us all...
Bad Chemistry: Alcohol and Drug Usage
If you were born in or grew up in the USA, you probably grew op on the Just Say No program. You saw the egg commercials and watched a crazed young girl smash her kitchen with a...
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April, 2002 (The Health Issue)April, 2003 (Globalization)
December, 2003 (The Fear Issue)
February, 2002
February, 2003
March 2004 (Coming to America)
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November, 2001
November, 2002 (Why Religion?)
October, 2003 (The Music Issue)
September, 2002 (Consumer Culture)
Summer, 2002
Past Submissions
Letter From the Team
Best of 2002-2004Letter from the Fertile Field editorial team
What's your American Dream?
America, Peeling
The Only Way to Feast
Flowers of Thy Meadow
Back From America
From Centimeters to Pounds
Legacy
Being Biracial in America
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