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What are you hiding behind the mask?

December 14, 2020

What does a writer look like? What does a runner look like? What does a mother look like? What does …

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Keeping the faith, one dollar at a time

December 9, 2020

I sold three books recently and received this check for $37.80. I could buy a decent dinner for two or …

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The allure of the 1970s

December 7, 2020

“The idea of ‘loosening the self’ not only underpinned specific 1970s enthusiasms—for jogging, natural foods, voluntary communities, and the geodesic …

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A look at the far-left in 2020

November 20, 2020

The Symbionese Liberation Army was one of many leftist radical organizations that appeared in the United States in the late …

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Have 5 minutes? Dance party!

November 19, 2020

I’ve been working using the Pomodoro method. I sit at my computer for 25 minutes, then I get up and …

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I’ve now shot a gun…

November 17, 2020

I took a gun safety class over the weekend. I knew a few people who were doing it and I’m …

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Favorite things: Paper doll art

November 12, 2020

We all know paper dolls, right? Perhaps you played with them when you were younger. But have you thought much …

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Roxane Gay on moving to the left

November 10, 2020

This section in Roxane Gay’s Nov. 5 New York Times column made me think of the manuscript I’ve written about …

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Memoir from a scholarly perspective

October 26, 2020

I’m happy that a subject I love (memoir) is a subject I can focus on in my academic life. In …

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The lure of California

October 20, 2020

Since California’s “Gold Rush” days, the state has consistently lured people seeking a better life. There’s something about the sunshine, …

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