Stephanie Bernaba

“Rather than ending abruptly, summer in Rhode Island is gently packed away for the colder months. In its place...

Ty Herndon spent years singing the truth on Nashville’s most prominent stages long before he was able to embrace his own reality. Today, he meets audiences with openness and humor,

Elaine Smith traded a teaching career for the FBI and took on Chicago’s organized crime Elaine Smith’s face holds a thousand secrets, but one would never know it at first glance. Sitting unassumingly on a couch next to her greatest cheerleader and…

Stephanie Bernaba Jan 20, 2019·4 min read According to the Book of Revelation, the Four Horsemen will be the harbingers of the great end, where death and pestilence will reign, the faithful will cling weakly to anything onto which they can hold, and…

Stephanie Bernaba Jan 19, 2019·5 min read I don’t know about you, but I had Health class once a week, for an hour, in high school. I don’t even remember if I had Health every year. We had a memorable teacher, but I have to admit I was one of the…

Stephanie Bernaba Dec 9, 2018·2 min read I see her pretty frequently. She’s struggling, heaving her way down the street, legs like sinewy pretzel rods, the same width from her hips to her ankles. Her gait is unnatural. She’s overdressed. Perhaps I’ve…

Stephanie Bernaba Nov 28, 2018·3 min read I sat in the hairdresser’s chair, furtively eyeing the woman to my right. She looked a rather well-preserved fifty. Her lashes hung thickly and heavily over her close-set eyes. I imagined she had to strain to…

Stephanie Bernaba Nov 24, 2018·4 min read I spent most of my life with my wheels spinning, running on angst, pride, and selfishness. I was looking for the next best thing, new jobs, promotions, graduate schools, a good hairdresser. I devoted a…

Stephanie Bernaba Nov 21, 2018·2 min read You and I need to have a sit-down. Just you and me. I feel — well, I feel like maybe you’re playing games with me. At first, everything was all glossy and potentially as much as 30% off, but some days, you…

Stephanie Bernaba May 26, 2018·3 min read A flashback to the week before Trump took the Oath of Office… This week has been a difficult one. Not only for myself, still confused about the largest political upset in the history of this country, but for…

Stephanie Bernaba May 26, 2018·5 min read I’ve struggled to find an angle from which to attack this issue, tiptoeing deftly around themes and posts I’ve already written. I’ve struggled internally about making any declaration after having pointed…

Stephanie Bernaba May 26, 2018·3 min read I watched World War Z the other night. You know, Zombie Apocalypse Movie #997-B, with Brad Pitt. In a world where a lot of things, quite frankly, suck, where people die for little or no reason, planes…

“It’s just — Well, I thought you were white trash,” she stared at me, this racially ambiguous girl, thin as a rail, with a freckled face, wild hair, and fur-lined coat. It was September of tenth grade, 1993, as I sat on a bumpy city bus in Providence…

New Year's Eve is upon us, and you know what that means: resolutions. Though there may be four or five people who make New Year's Resolutions and actually stick to them, the vast majority of people don't. The few weeks of January are rife with…