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In celebration of the bright and beautiful cover of our Spring Food Issue, our persimmon ‘Not A Tomato’ cap and green bean mug pair perfectly with an issue that explores what may look—and taste—simple but never is.

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Meghan Tear Plummer

About

Meghan Tear Plummer holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and her prose can be found at Kenyon Review Online and Glamour. She blogs at diswedding.wordpress.com and lives in Johannesburg with her husband.

Articles

BIRDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Soon I understood that when South Africans asked what I thought about South Africa, they expected me to make big-picture generalizations...

By Meghan Tear Plummer
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CONSEQUENCES FOR A THIEF

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  “Be careful you’re not romanticizing it,” my husband said a few days later as we talked through the experience. I knew what he meant, but it...

By Meghan Tear Plummer

FIRST PEOPLE

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  When I arrived, about thirty students—ages six to fifteen—were heavily bundled against the cold and standing on a low, concrete stage built...

By Meghan Tear Plummer

FLAT WITH A VIEW

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Up above, the electric Vodacom sign flashed through its paces of red and white, red and white, tingeing everything with pink light and...

By Meghan Tear Plummer

THE GYMNAST

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Across two lanes of traffic—an alarmingly short distance—he executed a round-off, back handspring, and back flip. He was so high in the air I...

By Meghan Tear Plummer
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UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  I couldn’t tell if my total transparency meant I was improving or that I was becoming completely unmoored, with no understanding of my words’...

By Meghan Tear Plummer