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A dear friend is retiring in June. It will be an enormous change for him and a great loss for his employers—far greater than they appreciate, I suspect. My husband and I have experienced our own great changes. Both of us are retired, though Gary teases me that I will never retire from teaching. The…
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We’ve seen a lot of films this past year, most of the Academy award nominees before Oscar night and others in theaters or on DVD. We didn’t get to everything. We still have not seen the sequel to Bladerunner or the animated features or the documentaries, but these will come to us eventually through Netflix.…
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“I heard a woman becomes herself the first time she speaks without permission,” says poet Denice Frohman in the first line of Twitter’s new #HereWeAre campaign, which made its TV debut tonight during ABC’s Oscars telecast. The brilliant video was the best thing on the Oscars. I hope no one minds me linking to it and…
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When I teach, I strive to give my students guidance and support as they become independent thinkers and writers. I am not always successful. Objective research, evaluating the credibility of sources, and teasing out the truth from propaganda and prejudice—this process is not automatic, but the result of trial and error and direction from family,…
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I intended to post about our walk this morning. My husband likes to say it’s hard to get me out, but once I am on the beach it’s even harder to get me to come back in. Today I found two pieces of sea glass and a handful of agates and interesting crystals and pebbles.…
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“Coming Out of the Kitchen—Coming Out of the Closet”* In her young womanhood, my grandmother could not vote, sign a contract, serve on a jury, use birth control, or control her own earnings or even her children without her husband’s consent. All of this changed in her lifetime. There was no legal term for sexual…
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.—Aristotle That’s Stan Foreman. I found him in the June 2016 alumni magazine from The University of Washington, Columns. Gary recognized him right away. But then yes, I could see it too. Stan is a part of my family…
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This isn’t where I thought I’d be. Everything is increasingly complex. My husband wanted to buy a copy of a Moody Blues CD that he already owned. Except he wanted the one with the half dozen bonus tracks. He’s looked for it in stores. He looked on Amazon and Amazon Marketplace. He found a new copy…
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From The New York Times: “According to the memo, officials laid out a “multipronged rationale” for spying on Mr. Page, including his past interactions with Russian spies, and informed the court of a counterintelligence investigation then underway into the Kremlin’s covert influence campaign. “Mr. Page, a former investment banker based in Moscow, had been on…
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I used to teach a unit on “media literacy” when I had high school sophomores. We looked at how advertising impacts consumers, the varied uses of propaganda, and the growth of social media. It was as much wanting as information. Media is not designed to be fair. For years, I also forbade juniors from writing…
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