Alan Fosterinthe CafeLife: One Bar at a TimeWe’ve all seen the bar urchin enough to know the trope. Slow moving. Forlorn. Pock-marked and big nosed, with rosy cheeks and sparse facial…Feb 8, 20213Feb 8, 20213
Alan Fosterinthe CafeLife: One Christmas at a Time‘The central question of a warriors training is not how to avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.’ We are all…Jan 2, 2021Jan 2, 2021
Alan FosterTales Through Time: The African in EuropeI did not see my first white until I was half-way to becoming a man. Now I am fighting his wars for him.Aug 3, 2020Aug 3, 2020
Alan FosterinLiterally LiteraryTales Through Time: The African in EuropeI did not see my first white until I was half-way to becoming a man. Now I am fighting his wars for him.Jun 5, 20201Jun 5, 20201
Alan FosterinLiterally LiteraryTales Through Time: The Boy in the MarketSleep comes lightly in the summer. It is too hot. The night is still. It settles in, like an unseen blanket. Inside, it’s too hot. It…Mar 31, 2020Mar 31, 2020
Alan FosterinLiterally LiteraryThe Q‘Happy Birthday!’ a chorus of voices shouts.Mar 29, 2020Mar 29, 2020
Alan Fosterinthe CafeDivorce in the Time of CoronaAs the world comes to the realization that bad things can, and do, happen from time to time, on both small and large scales I find myself…Mar 28, 2020Mar 28, 2020
Alan FosterinLiterally LiteraryThe Prices of SacrificeThe stillness of early morning fights against the break of day. Our small boat bobs across the laconic water. I squint as the first beams…Mar 18, 2020Mar 18, 2020
Alan Fosterinthe CafeLife: One Semester at a TimeThe astrophysicist Carlo Rovelli claims that time is, at it’s heart, nothing more than a measure of entropy, or a systems tendency toward…Dec 3, 20191Dec 3, 20191