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“Then you knew where you were.” The passing of #MichaelHerr.
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“The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.” #JesseWilliams
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There’s a link between “Mr. Hockey” Gordie Howe and my Canadian cousin Scotty Davidson, who died in WWI. Follow me there.
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By E.E. Cummings Presented in honor of the 34th birthday of Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau I shall imagine life is not worth dying, if (and when) roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed’s a rose, roses (you feel certain) will only smile ~ Lauren’s story is so much more…
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Peter Gøtzsche is a sort of anti-vaxxer in the field of mental health care. The Danish physician is head of an organization called the Nordic Cochrane Center at Rigshospitalet, a Copenhagen, Denmark, hospital (which does not, by the way, list mental health care on its website as among the services it offers). The center has made recent…
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It seems nearly impossible to know definitively how often rape occurs in the United States – partly because so many different reporting agencies have different criteria for what “rape” means, but perhaps even more than that it is because so many rapes – possibly as many as 70 percent of the rapes that occur –…
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There is no crankier mammal on the face of this planet that a grumbly black cat with a bone to pick about her name, who was probably rescued against her will. I’ve probably set myself up to explain a lot, but even that is really just the beginning of it, because we also forced a…
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In the Ward family, birthdays routinely stretch into weeks, Mother’s Day is an attitude, and even Christmas can be shifted to accommodate the complicated schedules of our extended, blended families … … So bear with me if I insist on extending Memorial Day past midnight Monday. (I believe they deserve it, those who have died…
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I am privileged to teach in a first-year writing program at a northeastern U.S. university that allows me to draw in readings as I see fit, as long as the structure of the class follows a model shared by other classes in the program. My class is called “War Stories.” Everything we read has something to…
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