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- 2193 Views
- 18 Comments
A memory of young adulthood--growing up late
FEBRUARY 15, 2012 7:33AM
Topics: bob dylan, growing up, daughters, parents, food/drink, marijuana, academics, university, youth, education, books, life stories
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- 3081 Views
- 16 Comments
Why I Hate Bars
JANUARY 30, 2012 11:45PM
Topics: childhood, parents, relationships, drunk, police, silent, forgotten, phone number, elementary, blizzard, christmas
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- 1108 Views
- 12 Comments
Growing Up Is Hard to Do
JANUARY 11, 2012 9:08AM
Topics: growing up, parents, ageing, health, family
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- 3637 Views
- 20 Comments
Arrested Development - Occupy Style
DECEMBER 18, 2011 11:05AM
Topics: occupy, politics, occupy wall street, arrest, shopping mall, open call, oakland, north carolina, raleigh, sociology, parents, children
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- 2639 Views
- 12 Comments
The Things I Didn't Keep of Mom and Dad's
NOVEMBER 30, 2011 9:42AM
Topics: parents, books, growing old, endings, goodbyes, family, memories, home, inscriptions
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- 1231 Views
- 13 Comments
Little Boy Lost -- And Murdered
JULY 15, 2011 8:29AM
Topics: news, family, strangers, trust, predators, murder, crime, parents, kids
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- 1424 Views
- 6 Comments
A letter to Michael Jackson
JUNE 21, 2011 11:07AM
Topics: open call, saved by pop culture, michael jackson, growing up, teenagers, poland, canada, immigrating, suicide, parents
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- 2564 Views
- 62 Comments
The letter I can't bear to throw away (please critique)
MARCH 25, 2011 2:58AM
Topics: irony, closure, human flaws, sorrow, love, parents, letters, spring cleaning
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- 1608 Views
- 20 Comments
Moving Day
MARCH 24, 2011 7:45AM
Topics: true story, parents, retirement, moving, christmas
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- 2940 Views
- 48 Comments
Who Cares For The Caregiver?
FEBRUARY 17, 2011 11:53PM
Topics: health, family, aging parents, old parents, parents, sandwich generation, nursing home, old age, caregivers, caregving
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- 583 Views
- 5 Comments
Kayak: One Word, One Life
DECEMBER 6, 2010 10:53AM
Topics: death, life, grief, parents, parenting, marriage, afterlife, navy, adventure, travel, joy, meaning, work, birthdays, mourning, philosophy of life
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- 1839 Views
- 56 Comments
Speaking Adult
NOVEMBER 12, 2010 12:57PM
Topics: teaching, parents, figurative, literal, adults, language, comedy, family
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- 1729 Views
- 37 Comments
The First Rule of Teaching: Do No Harm
OCTOBER 21, 2010 12:46PM
Topics: teachers, education, evaluating teacher performance, teacher tests, teacher training, educational system, students, parents, roald dahl, matilda, miss trunchbull
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- 2389 Views
- 49 Comments
Little Frail Porcelain Kid
AUGUST 31, 2010 6:31PM
Topics: video, travel, television, technology, photography, poetry, news, movies, health, gay/lesbian, family, comedy, books, belief/religion, shame, stories, parents, love, life, kid, porcelain
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- 1806 Views
- 27 Comments
Avoiding cow carcasses to pour adults beer
AUGUST 24, 2010 10:42PM
Topics: food/drink, comedy, family, beef fondue, it was the seventies, parents, grandparents, hee-haw, beer, sides of beef, conflicted carnivores, open call
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- 8011 Views
- 54 Comments
Sorry Miss. parents, prom isn't as wholesome as you think
APRIL 7, 2010 2:40PM
Topics: intolerance, tolerance, decoy prom, segregation, wholesome, parents, mississippi, equality, lesbians, heterosexuality, homosexuality, constance mcmillian, prom
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- 3875 Views
- 102 Comments
Are You My Grandmother?
MARCH 9, 2010 3:24PM
Topics: history, yad veshem, world war ii, nazis, hungary, auschwitz, holocaust, family, parents, grandmothers
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- 1811 Views
- 40 Comments
Boca Sandwich, Hold the Reaper
MARCH 3, 2010 11:29AM
Topics: true story, aging, boomers, parents, kids, life, death, help, hope, cancer, stroke, pain pain pain, generations, family
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- 2090 Views
- 43 Comments
Deathbed DJ (or Mom's Greatest Hits)
JANUARY 13, 2010 2:51AM
Topics: the ink spots, monument valley, r. carlos nakai, paul horn, pavarotti, willie nelson, tony bennett, sons of the pioneers, death shelby lynne, parents, music, baptists, andy williams
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- 1945 Views
- 36 Comments
America's Educational Challenge: Get Smart
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 4:53PM
Topics: open call, beta corps, obama, education, economics, humanities, children, parents, responsibility, harpers, slouka, freaky, cake
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