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May.06.2011
Technically, I'm a paid writer. I write informational articles on topics ranging from clogged toilets to diesel exhaust at a flat rate of $16 per article. In the past year, nearly 200 of my articles have been published in online magazines. Some are humorous; many are dry. All require extensive...
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Mar.17.2011
"Why did the chicken cross the road?" It's the proverbial bad joke that's been part of the English lexicon since its publication in the 1847 issue of The Knickerbocker, a New York monthly publication. And yet, as a simplistic metaphor, it's surprisingly profound and applicable to the...
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Feb.11.2011
Most days when I sit by my computer, I can imagine that we're wealthy. I look out the window, the one just behind my computer monitor, and watch the deer stripping leaves off the spare branches poking out of the snow. We live in a 100-year-old rented carriage house on a 20-acre estate. The owners,...
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Feb.02.2011
I lost my three children ten years ago after a contentious custody battle. The judge's decision came down two weeks before the World Trade Center crumbled in a pile of smoldering ash. Being a New York State resident, my new husband and I took our children (six of my eight stepchildren) to lower...
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Mar.03.2010
When it comes to neighborly relationships, I must remember that "kind" doesn't correlate to "charitable," "friendly" doesn't mean "interested," and "neighbor" doesn't infer "caring." And though I'd like to believe that neighbors should...
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About Merle
Merle Huerta is an adjunct instructor in English and English Skills at SUNY Rockland, a freelance instructional designer, an army chaplain's wife, a mother of a blended family of thirteen children, a triage nurse, a therapist, a short-order cook, a...
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