Truckers and the trucking industry are crucial to the U.S. economy. They are the primary means of transporting goods in many industries, including food, medicine, manufacturing, retail, and many more. Yet, despite this, truckers are a group of people we don’t normally notice. Of course we see them drive by every day, delivering anything from packages, mail, to food. But we only notice the trucks, not the people driving them; we see the trucks as only functions serving us, and

One day, my parents were not home, and my grandmother, tasked with taking care of me, took me with her to play on her farm. I had no idea what to expect. Five minutes outside the condominium we lived in, Grandma led me through a large, missing portion of a wall. Turning the corner, I saw a little island of unorganized nature overgrown with trees, bushes, and tall weeds. Not knowing anything about farming or plants, I only realized that this was not my grandmother’s farm unti

The crowd cheered as the great painter Aurelio announced his new work to the public. On the benches below, Francesco and Aurelio’s other apprentices watched bitterly. In truth, Aurelio was not the hand behind his paintings; it was the apprentices who ground the pigments, stretched the canvases, and laid down the paint. The master arrived only at the end, signing the works with a flourish to claim them as his own. Aurelio never bothered sharing his wealth or fame. His apprenti

劳動光荣 Mark black Chinese characters above a small wooden door of a shaggy old house where my father lived as a child,  And where his parents lived when they were young,  Back when the couplets along the door were not so faded and decayed,  The walls not so stained and cracked,  The weeds in front not so overgrown,  The trees behind not so bare.  My young father stood straight in front of the front door,  Hands tucked in his new Mizuno winter coat He had bought with money he ha