Two of my father’s favorite sayings crossed my mind as the plane touched down in Bulawayo: Almost doesn’t fill a bowl and second place is the first loser. I expected him to say one or the other once he found out the truth.

Moments of bliss seldom collide, but the instant a warm, sweet fritter went soft on his tongue, Hill noticed the painting — silver hair, blazing eye, skin the hearty brown of good bread — half shoved behind the door.

Kara Stewart (Sapony) is a Reading Specialist and Literacy Interventionist in the North Carolina Public Schools. Her photography, found at Kara Stewart, Art in Photography encompasses a broad range of styles from abstract to macro, and topics from Native to nature, rural to urban.

Cielito went to the Evangélicos on Mondays where she signed her name and showed her food bank ID.