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Asturias Days

Asturias Days

American writer Clellan Coe, who has lived on the windswept northern coast of Spain for many years, sees her surroundings as both an insider and an outsider.

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A Breath of Air

A Breath of Air

by Clellan Coe | Friday, June 14, 2019
Getting Smart

Getting Smart

by Clellan Coe | Friday, June 07, 2019
Ourcar

Ourcar

by Clellan Coe | Friday, May 31, 2019
Spires rising out of early morning fog

The Spire

by Clellan Coe | Friday, May 24, 2019
<em>Hay Tomate</em>

Hay Tomate

by Clellan Coe | Friday, May 17, 2019
Magnífico

Magnífico

by Clellan Coe | Friday, May 10, 2019
What’s with that?

What’s with that?

by Clellan Coe | Friday, May 03, 2019
Cocido

Cocido

by Clellan Coe | Friday, April 26, 2019
Rescue

Rescue

by Clellan Coe | Friday, April 19, 2019
Peel, Bark, Skin

Peel, Bark, Skin

by Clellan Coe | Friday, April 12, 2019
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Fathers and Sons

by James McConkey

“Could we have been better parents?” At 87, Cornell emeritus professor James McConkey reflects on the inadvertent ways that parents—especially fathers—shape their children. “Most parents don’t want their children to suffer the kind of grief inflicted on them by their own parents,” he says in this essay from our Spring 2008 issue. “By saving them from that, though, they may inflict upon their children difficulties of another kind.” As the father to three sons, McConkey is acutely aware of how his relationship with his own father informed his relationship with his children. His essay “What Kind of Father Am I?” is a meditation on aging, parenthood, and the bond between fathers and sons.