Author / Emily Angstreich

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  • Survivor’s Guilt

    By Emily Angstreich Artwork by    In New York City, there is a statue in Hudson Yards known as The Vessel. Interlocking and weaving it's way up 16 stories with 154 flights of stairs, I did not want to climb it. So, when given the option to wait in an hour-long line for the 'opportunity'…
  • Gunfire and Mental Health

    After the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, Donald Trump said, “mental illness and hatred pulled the trigger. Not the gun.” Arguably, without the gun, 31 people would not have died in less than 24 hours.  In the wake of these recentmss shootings, politicians on both sides of the aisle have been…