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HOW I ENDED UP IN ALASKA
From the Beach Bar to the Last Frontier: part one
I made a lot of drastic moves after I returned from the road trip. I was struggling, daily, to get back to normalcy. Maybe because normalcy hadn’t existed since my mother died. The only constant since her funeral was change. I moved every few months. And then, for three years, I moved every few days.
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And now I was “home.” But what was home? I felt like I had hit pause for three years, while everyone else seemed to have pressed fast forward in their lives. Married. Children. Secure jobs. It felt so disorienting. Coming back didn’t bring the comfort I had expected; it only made me feel more alone. I was desperate to find footing on Long Island, not because I wanted to be there, but because my family was there. Only the discomfort never left. And in many ways, it was what kept pushing me to keep uprooting myself in search of a new sense of “home.”
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Last summer, I got closer than I ever had in Alaska.
"More Good is in no way partisan, but it is political – fiercely political. More Good embodies a form of empathy that is rare at this cynical moment in American “civil” discourse. The project is strangely foreign, attractively authentic, and profoundly necessary. Through the careful curation of stories, Latham calls us to a better, more productive politics – a politics that transgresses the boundaries between red and blue, that enters the homes of Trump supporters and Clinton supporters, and lends an attentive ear to those who stand and to those who kneel."
- Michael Chan
Kingman Daily Miner
50 STATES
154 HOMES
43,000 MILES
...soon to be a book for hospital waiting rooms.
From October 2016 to November 2019 Mary Latham drove her mother's old Subaru (in her honor) 43,000 miles across America to collect stories of acts of human kindness. A mission inspired by her mother's words that "there will always be more good out there, if you look for it." She hit all 50 states and now plans to compile the stories into a book to donate to hospital waiting rooms.
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that one time when I forgot I was on national television and said, "fart."
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some of my favorite footage from the journey taken in Chicago, IL.
