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Carole's Latest Blogs
Jul.12.2012 - 1:34 pm
Almost no one believed the old man’s story at the town meeting. He claimed to have seen the thing that carried off the cats and made the ear-shattering screams....
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Jul.06.2012 - 7:32 am
Homesteading in Halbrite, Saskatchewan in 1906 was a lonely affair for any young man. But, being quarantined for smallpox intensified the solitude.
July 9, 1906 found Levi...
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Jan.26.2012 - 10:13 am
I do it every day; I mean time-travel. I'm so forgetful that I leave messages on my phone to give my future self a hint as to what surely was forgotten.
Then later, my past...
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Apr.21.2011 - 7:02 am
Greg Mortenson (charged)
Jon Krakauer (accuser)
Attorney General Steve Bullock (referee)
It’s obviously a case of author-envy, a quest for publicity, and a desire to become...
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Smallpox Survivor
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War of the Whirls
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01.Jun.2009
Carole Mackin reviews
I listened to the Kite Runner audiobook several years ago. For good or bad, it shaped my understanding of Afghanistan. It also haunts me. Not because of what is unique about...
About Carole
My life is defined by a river. I grew up at the mouth of the Missouri River. As a young child, I believed that the river flowed in the wrong direction. An absurd idea -- until I realized that I was not at the source of the river where I belonged. Now I...
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Carole’s Favorite Books
The Golden Ass by Lucius written in 200 AD but still enjoyable today.
May all our works last so long.
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