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I Gave Up Creative Writing for a Decade It was the best thing I could ever have done By Anna Rollins The summer after graduating with my Master’s in English, I made myself a promise: I was going to write. During my course of study, I’d begun a collection of essays about characters at my Appalachian fundamentalist Christian school and had been told […]
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Chasing Narrative Arc—One Writer’s Path to Totality By Andrea A. Firth As we drive to the airport to catch an early flight, I see a sliver of moon, the waning crescent, in the morning sky. I look at the weather app on my phone and report the five-day forecast for our destination: “Hot and sunny for two days, clouds over the weekend, […]
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Stitch by Stitch and Word by Word By Carolyn Roy-Bornstein When my foster daughter recently got a job as an assistant veterinary technician at a local animal hospital, she bought a brand-new pair of scrubs. Because she is petite, they needed to be shortened. Janine climbed onto a stool at our kitchen counter and turned in a slow circle while I measured […]
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The Joys of Writing to Wordcount By Olga Mecking “On the test, you will have to write an essay of around 200 words,” my English teacher said. I first encountered the idea of wordcount in EFL classes and was taken aback. Where I come from, long essays written in flowery style are the norm, especially in school. Teachers said, “Write for […]
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Renewable Energy Renewable Energy: Power the World with Sustainable Fuel with Hands-On Science Activities for Kids by Erin Twamley (Author), Joshua Sneideman (Author), and Micah Rauch (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Scientists ages 9 to 12 learn how switching from nonrenewable energy sources to renewable ones can help make our homes, businesses, cities, and world better, …
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