My mother read to me from the time I could turn over from my back to my belly. Soon as I could walk, she began taking me to the little library on Central Street, and soon enough I’d run through all the wonderful books for kids the librarians knew of and could afford to buy. […]
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I hate writing for the universe. It’s like dancing in front of a jeering crowd, painfully aware of yourself. You feel caged in your own body with every thought from the audience jabbing your heart as you move. Yet unlike dancing, writers can’t avoid the audience. They are haunted by them in every word they
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There are a number of ways we can show compassion easily and every day. I’ve included ten different ideas, and I’ve used several of these techniques on a daily basis, so I’m pretty sure they work. While I’m no Dalai Lama, I have increased my awareness of others and become more considerate through these practices. 1.
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Life as a trucker isn’t easy or clean, and it often includes challenges that we in the general public don’t realize. Take, for instance, a fictional driver named Hailee Reagan, whose opinions and outlook stem from the firsthand accounts of several drivers I know and from various written accounts of drivers I don’t know. Hailee’s
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Franklin Macon, who passed away at his home on November 22, 2020 at the age of 97, was one of only two remaining original Tuskegee airmen. After lengthy stays at care centers following an illness, he was happy to finally go home to his own house in the neighborhood that he had grown up in
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Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the unsung beetle. We share the planet with over 400,000 species of beetles. (For perspective, there are only 50,000 animals with backbones: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals combined.) In fact, according to Berkeley entomologist Jerry Powell, beetles make up “almost 25% of all known life-forms.” How many kinds
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