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Jan.20.2010
You've probably walked or driven past them a hundred times -- the old fraternal lodge halls, remnants of one of the core infrastructures of America's nearly extinct civil society -- and never given them a second glance. They might just hold the key to a central response to the decline of the...
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Jan.13.2010
These days nearly everyone wraps the concept of community in warm emotional rhetoric. So how come so many people would gladly run a mile in cheap galoshes to avoid the experience of community? The Archdruid explains all, in the latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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Nov.25.2009
It's 7.20 p.m here on the south coast of England and I'm just breaking off in the middle of writing to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans. We don't have this day in England, but maybe we should. So here's my chance to say 'thank you' to all members of our armed forces both in the UK and...
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Oct.30.2009
Retail therapy – picking up a venti mocha frappuccino to make you feel better and ward off bad feelings – is one of the ways of buying I talk about a lot about in my book, Everything but the Coffee.
In yesterday’s edition of the Daily Pennsylvanian, Arielle Kane, discusses this impulse as well...
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Oct.17.2009
Expat Harem has a new global niche.
The Expat Harem — a concept I coined in 2004 with Jennifer Eaton Gokmen and brought to life in 2005 and 2006 in the foreign women in Turkey anthology Tales from the Expat Harem – has always been about a modern and virtual community of cultural peers.
Now the (...
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Oct.03.2009
Premium Gift … I found the Red Room Writers Society October 8th 2008. This month is my One Year anniversary. (Or is it First Year anniversary?) Becoming a member here has opened up a whole new world of opportunity for me. I was in the process of writing my book with no writing experience...
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Sep.26.2009
Have you ever walked out into a parking lot after a ball game and looked around the vastness and not been able to find your car? Or after shopping and walked the rows and been sure you left in somewhere and it was simply not there? I have. It was an absolutely horrible feeling. I had security...
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Sep.18.2009
Ron Wach has been hiking almost constantly for fifteen years--ever since he endured his third car accident while commuting to his job with a large pharmaceutical company in a big city. On that day, he was sitting still, stopped by traffic, when he was hit at 65mph by another car.
"That was it...
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Aug.28.2009
There seem to be phases in life when you need to go it alone to prove your independence, ponder your path, or just generally figure things out.
These phases, I’ve discovered, are for the young.
By the age of 30, it seems like every one of us Lone Rangers should find not only our Tonto, but an...
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Aug.25.2009
Don’t you just love a good “Aha!” moment? There’s nothing like that glorious instant of understanding when the “Huh?” becomes “Duh!”
Whether it’s a fact or formula that you’ve struggled to comprehend or an emotional breakthrough that crystallized what really matters to you, the newfound clarity is...
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