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I’m a sucker for making a glorious mess, so when I had the chance to volunteer at St. Patrick’s Park’s “Good Clean Dirty Fun” event, I jumped right in.…
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If you had to draw a map of your community, what would it look like? Or, a map of your life? Maps are descriptive, impressionistic, and interpretive. As…
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I usually paddle around in the medium of metaphor, but not today. Today I’m making an unvarnished argument: If you have the means, buy a megaphone. Then,…
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Today, please open your English Major Handbook to the page titled: objective correlative. As you no doubt remember, that’s a literary term for objects…
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By the time you’re a grown up — and woe betide you if that’s all you’re aiming for — it’s pretty easy to stick with what you already know. When I was in a…
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What’s giving you hope today? I am charged up. I’m slurping coffee from a gigantic mug with the motto: Wake Up, Kick Butt, Repeat. By my reading chair is…
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This is the story of how, at age 52, I learned to like experimental jazz. Or, really, this is the story of how I learned I could learn to like…
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It’s county fair season, and a day or two in those crowded midways is another kind of summer school. It’s not the animals I look forward to. I love the…
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As a nerdy kid with a competitive streak, I thought of summer reading as both a sprint and a marathon. My local library didn't host a “summer reading…
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Today, I offer an argument: States divide themselves one of two ways: by longitude, or latitude. For example, I grew up in Colorado, where the eastern…