InThe Human LedgerbyOphelia Truitt·Jun 20The Ledger Series, Part 3: The Withdrawn HandThe hardest costs to account for are the ones that come from doing nothing. This is the arithmetic of deaths that didn’t have to happen.A response icon3A response icon3
Ophelia Truitt·Jun 20Holding BothMy father is almost 85. Last week he had a stroke. A few days later, he had another one. He’s in the hospital now, fighting to recover; to…A response icon13A response icon13
InThe Human LedgerbyOphelia Truitt·Jun 13The Ledger Series, Part 2: The CascadeHow a war reached into a fishing boat thousands of miles away — and why the people paying the most never saw it coming.A response icon1A response icon1
InUnheard VoicesbyOphelia Truitt·Jun 13Why I Talk About My BankruptcyPeople sometimes look at my life now: a house, a husband who works, an adult kid paying rent, decades of marriage, and assume things were…A response icon13A response icon13
InThe Human LedgerbyOphelia Truitt·Jun 8The Ledger Series, Part 1: The Bill Always Lands SomewhereA five-part accounting of who pays for one man’s decisions. We start with the rule that runs underneath all of it and the tax you’re…A response icon3A response icon3
Ophelia Truitt·Jun 6I Don’t Take Direction WellI hated school. Not the learning, the learning was fine. The part I hated was being told what to do, when to do it, and how to sit while…A response icon19A response icon19
InThe Human LedgerbyOphelia Truitt·May 29The Camps In Our BackyardsThe Human Ledger | Issue 11A response icon1A response icon1
InUnheard VoicesbyOphelia Truitt·May 29The Thing I’ve Been Not Writing AboutI process the world as data.A response icon9A response icon9
InThe Human LedgerbyOphelia Truitt·May 22What the Casualty Counts Don’t MeasureThe Human Ledger | Issue 10A response icon5A response icon5
InUnheard VoicesbyOphelia Truitt·May 22What Burnout Actually Feels Like From InsideI want to tell you what the clinical descriptions leave out.A response icon11A response icon11