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    A Smile Not Part of a Pattern

    MAY 25, 2012 6:25PM

    By Lucy Simpson


    Topics: memoir, essay, feminism

    • Editor's Pick
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    • 590 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The Dark Knight didn't *really* inspire grim blockbusters.

    MAY 21, 2012 2:40PM

    By Scott Mendelson


    Topics: amazing spider-man, avatar, batman begins, chris nolan, comic book, essay, harry potter, iron man, joss whedon, star trek, the avengers, the dark knight, the dark knight rises, twilight saga, movies, entertainment, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 278 Views
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    Middle of the night with Franzen

    MAY 1, 2012 6:47PM

    By Claudia Sternbach


    Topics: grateful, book, kind, benevolent, thoughtful, important, literature, authentic, voice, deep breathing, connection, essay, novels, friends, jon, franzen, memoir, reading

    • 0 Ratings
    • 62 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    One More Can't Hurt, Right?

    APRIL 18, 2012 10:50AM

    By Jeannine Bergers Everett


    Topics: essay, career, personal, inspiration, humor

    • 16 Ratings
    • 368 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    I Can't Make You Want Me, if you don't.

    APRIL 11, 2012 6:39PM

    By eyespye


    Topics: the salvation of writing on os, the perils of job-hunting, economy, essay, unemployment myths debunked, late open-call

    • 1 Ratings
    • 142 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Drowning Summer

    APRIL 3, 2012 11:24AM

    By Lucy Simpson


    Topics: swimming, memoir, essay, child abuse, health, feminism

    • 8 Ratings
    • 252 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Outliving Our Usefulness?

    MARCH 27, 2012 1:56PM

    By eyespye


    Topics: health, family, essay, growing old, taking care of our parents, perspective, aging gracefully (or not), elder care

    • 5 Ratings
    • 344 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Loving WAR

    MARCH 6, 2012 1:11PM

    By Desnee Flakes


    Topics: girls just wanna have fun, hanging with the bands, my life open call, essay, music

    • 0 Ratings
    • 167 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Media Independent from the Government

    FEBRUARY 27, 2012 3:37PM

    By Nikki Purgason


    Topics: essay, media, education

    • 0 Ratings
    • 66 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Is This You? Going on Purse Strike

    FEBRUARY 24, 2012 5:10PM

    By Trina Machacek


    Topics: life, women, essay, humor

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    • 19 Ratings
    • 1191 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Ice and Fire

    FEBRUARY 23, 2012 7:56PM

    By Desnee Flakes


    Topics: open call, essay, childhood, family

    • 1 Ratings
    • 97 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Now in Lavender Vanilla

    FEBRUARY 11, 2012 10:20AM

    By notbabette


    Topics: fiction, satire, essay

    • 2 Ratings
    • 350 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    On the Meaning of Sin

    FEBRUARY 5, 2012 7:33PM

    By poligraf


    Topics: cosmos, course-correction, redirection mechanism, elimination of error, liberation, heaven, hell, error, sin, hamartia, metanoia, missing the mark, repentance, essay, deterrents, setbacks, anger, greed, folly, awareness, consciousness

    • 7 Ratings
    • 475 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Reaching the Level of My Own Incompetence

    FEBRUARY 8, 2012 3:21PM

    By eyespye


    Topics: covert (and not so covert) age discrimination, economic fall out, perceptions, flash vs. experience, essay, bartending, craft-cocktail craze, employment in the service industry after 50, debunking unemployment myths, open-call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 336 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    My First Muse, and My Second

    SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 4:44AM

    By bill benzon


    Topics: autobiography, essay, thought, art, love

    • 4 Ratings
    • 162 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    My Life of Crime

    SEPTEMBER 4, 2011 5:23PM

    By Mark Van Aken Williams


    Topics: memoir, family, essay, growing up, artful dodger

    • 0 Ratings
    • 622 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Fantastical Ascent Of Jason Sanford

    AUGUST 25, 2011 5:24AM

    By Dan Schneider


    Topics: jason sanford, dan schneider, cosmoetica, essay, criticism, science fiction, sci fi, sf, sublimation angels, never never stories

    • 1 Ratings
    • 178 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Essay : On Desire

    AUGUST 17, 2011 10:32AM

    By poligraf


    Topics: star, process, dream, vision, "richard wagner", "henry david thoreau", "søren kierkegaard", "hazrat inayat khan", sufism, vajrayana, mahayana, hinayana, vehicle, suffering, enlightenment, "magic city", redirection, error, separation, relinquish, avoid, temptation, poison, ego, confusion, hatred, aversion, gree, "three poisons", buddhism, desire, essay

    • 0 Ratings
    • 124 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    what Ted Quinn taught me

    AUGUST 11, 2011 6:14PM

    By Meatsquare


    Topics: argue forcefully, essay, writing, ted quinn

    • 1 Ratings
    • 503 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Vanilla-iced pumpkin bread, of course

    JULY 6, 2011 4:27PM

    By JJ-Dalton


    Topics: coffee, pumpkin, autumn, food, queue, essay

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