Sunday Reads: Range in storytelling and a plea for Zoom inclusivity

A brand new puzzle with acquainted aptitude

Final Sunday, we introduced our new obituaries part, a brand new addition to our Sunday Reads publication. At present, we’re letting you realize of yet one more new weekly function: the WordroW puzzle.

We’ve heard from lots of you — and see in our metrics — that our Santa Cruz Puzzle Heart has been an excellent praise to your each day information consumption. Whereas the mini crossword, phrase search, Sudoku and customized Santa Cruz puzzles have been hits, WordroW helps fill within the pop puzzle hole.

Much like a type of puzzle you’ve doubtless performed earlier than, WordroW depends on a collection of guesses to unravel a two-word phrase. You’ll be able to play our very first one (trace: It’s a Santa Cruz County location) by tapping the puzzle under.

We hope you get pleasure from WordroW as a brand new, common function of the Sunday Reads publication. Tell us what you suppose by replying to this electronic mail.

Santa Cruz’s Writers of Shade inform tales we’d in any other case by no means hear

Twenty-two native writers share their very own shared, and distinct, experiences as the brand new group host a night of poetry and music on the Museum of Artwork & Historical past in Santa Cruz on Oct. 6. Wallace Baine has the preview for his Sunday column.

Megan Kalomiris, a science author and 2022 UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program graduate, has autism and struggles with social interplay. For her, in-person conferences, small speak and socializing really feel like “exams I might by no means research for or go.” COVID-19 gave her a break, an opportunity to really feel extra “regular.” “For the primary time, neurotypical folks had been feeling a little bit of what I often expertise: a world not constructed to your wants,” she writes. Now, with restrictions largely lifted, she makes a plea to maintain the inclusivity she so cherished. Learn her op-ed right here.