Note from the Editors : Join us in some designer buhE dabo and hand-cut Labor Day zilzil Tbs, will you?

My Story: In a land where we all skip kindergarten, this is higher education for kids ...

Bawza: Tackling the "conflicting desires of many Ethiopians--their longing to be immersed in their community life" on the one hand, and "their active dodging and evasion of duties and responsibilities to realize this ideal," on the other.

Life Diaries: Samicho, Saminet, Samishet, Samiye...abEt qulmCHa!!

Disappearing Acts: Now you see them, now you don't. Caught in a tight spot between YluNta and MisTr.

'TyE Marech: We all have one in our family. But do we see them? Do we see them? That's the angebgabi TiyaQe.

Insects: Blowing the horn at the walls of the absolute misTir.

Up In Smoke: Raw innocence battles with refined amorality in a stately Addis Abeba salon.

(W/Q)rss : Does Father know best? You betcha!

Axed Out: Call it "outplacement", call it "transition", but it's still a layoff.

Admasu's Secret: "Don't go there!" or "Testing the Depths of Our Cruelty".

QN'toch: Variations on the YluNta zEma.

Curses(.): Millstone heirlooms that bend the bEteseb's back.

Miss Ethiopia By The Bay: You got it? Then flaunt it, baby. No?

Snapshot: Verbal clicks, snaps and freeze frames from the 2001 San Francisco soccer tournament.

Confession: Altar chewata.

SELEDA Berenda: Of Mood Indigos, Day Dreams and Satin Dolls: Aida Muluneh's images.

SELEDA Top Ten: Seleda's Top Ten Y'Adebabai misTroch.

SELEDA Chat: We'll bring the weyala if you'll bring the wy'yt...deal?

Backpage: Faux lawyers, faux wives, faux accidents...does reality ever bite?

Do the Right Thing: The visionaries at Yezelalem Minch takes a long-term approach to helping the children caught in the AIDS crisis.