Here’s a cute little story: One day, when I was five years old, I commented to one of my kindergarten peers that playing sports was a good pastime for people who weren’t smart enough to read books or add numbers. In related news, that was also the day I spent around a half-hour trapped in […]
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Unless you’ve been kicking back in another dimension over the summer, you probably know at least something about Stranger Things, Netflix’s fantasy horror juggernaut from The Duffer Brothers. This show has a bit of everything for fans of the genre: a creepy storyline, kids on bicycles (without helmets, even), nefarious scientists, a chain-smoking Winona Ryder
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Confession: I like to watch a lot of television. For my money, it doesn’t get any better than marathon sessions of shows like The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Stranger Things (yes, that last one’s technically still television). The compelling mysteries, plot twists, and story arcs in these series are like digital catnip to me, but
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Yesterday, I saw a bumper sticker that read “If you’re not hustling, you’re part of the problem.” As I sat at a traffic light and stared at that sticker, I began to examine my life. I wondered, what does this guy know that I don’t? Should I be hustling? How, exactly, does one hustle? Is
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In 1961, at age 19, I began teaching first grade in western North Dakota. My students consisted of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara children, descendants of the native tribes who’d lived there for centuries, with equal numbers of ranch kids and those whose dads worked the oil fields. Only fourteen years earlier I had been a
As I write this, humanity is nearing the end of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, or so I’ve heard in hushed whispers here and there. Who am I kidding? The Rio Olympics is all I’ve been hearing about over the past few weeks, whether I was listening or not. Person A swam/ran/tumbled/threw something faster
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