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May.03.2013
This was originally a guest blog post from Karen Joy Fowler's animal interactions blog: http://karenjoyfowler.com/blog/
Micah Perks, deer Posted on May 3, 2013
Contributed by the fabulous novelist, memoirist, and short story writer, Micah Perks, who is, to my great fortune and infinite...
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Sep.13.2012
Those of us fascinated by learning and how we are affected by the places where learning occurs find ourselves exploring a wonderfully unexpected learning space in Annie Murphy Paul’s Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives: the womb.
It is Paul...
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Apr.11.2012
Arizona lawmakers passed a bill defining life as beginning two week before conception.
John Celock at HuffPost puts it nicely:
"A sentence in the bill defines gestational age as "calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman," which would move the beginning of a...
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Apr.02.2012
I have been seriously exercising for more than a decade. I run, lift and climb on any machine that promises to get my heart pumping. For me, it is more than a means to maintain health and fitness; it is a way to feel strong both internally and externally. I was never an athlete in...
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Mar.14.2012
Just at first, in the dark hallway, it had given Dottie rather a funny feeling to be tiptoeing up the stairs only two nights after Kay’s wedding to a room right across from Harald’s old room, where the same thing had happened to Kay. An awesome feeling, really, like when the group all got the...
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Mar.14.2012
Just at first, in the dark hallway, it had given Dottie rather a funny feeling to be tiptoeing up the stairs only two nights after Kay’s wedding to a room right across from Harald’s old room, where the same thing had happened to Kay. An awesome feeling, really, like when the group all got the...
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Feb.09.2012
How on earth could I relate to a character like Maximus? Was I a general who became a slave who became a gladiator who came back to give an ass whoopin' to the Emperor of Rome? Hell no. I was just Dori -- a married woman with a two year old child, living in a nice home in suburban New Jersey....
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Feb.05.2012
Seventeen days until my daughter’s estimated arrival, yet she has no idea the transformation about to take place. As her body daily expands with the insulating fat that will sustain her, I can feel every ripple of her limbs in the ever-shrinking globe of my womb, and this movement makes me long to...
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Feb.04.2012
Several years ago I wrote a short story for one of the writing contests run by the online writer's group, Backspace. That story, "Still Life With Lovers," tied for first place along with a story by my friend, author A.S. King. The story has sat on my hard drive for several years now, whispering for...
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Jan.29.2012
image via hollywoodreporter.com
Salvage The Bones, by Jesmyn Ward
I don’t remember why I bought this book. It probably wasn’t that it won the National Book Award for 2011; more likely that it’s about the Mississippi coast in the time prior to Hurricane Katrina. I have...
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