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Oct.07.2010
Ribbons of Awareness
By Ripley Patton
"Would you like a free ribbon?" a woman asks. There, in the place between the outer and the inner doors, are two women and a man, smiling and holding out little black cards.
"No," I say. They have cards. Not ribbons. These are...
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Jan.16.2010
When I was in college, I had the opportunity to visit Haiti for a month. It is an amazing place, a beautiful place, a difficult, impoverished and often frightening place. But the people of Haiti are wonderful, friendly, open and giving.I cannot express how sad I am that catastrophe has befallen...
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Dec.09.2009
You might be in the throes of winter right now, but I am not. Actually, half the world isn't experiencing winter right now because half the world is located in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is summer. But that is half the world "geographically speaking", not population-wise, which is...
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Nov.17.2009
I was watching the movie Zeitgeist tonight in which myth was defined as "something that is widely believed, but is actually false." Having proudly described myself as a "Purveyor of Myth" I took some offense to that definition. Actually, I stormed out of the room loudly...
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Oct.30.2009
It is Halloween here in New Zealand. Tonight children of all ages will be dressing up in guises of hope and fear. Teenagers will be buying eggs and toilet paper, and telling their parents they'll be at each other's houses until late (which technically isn't lying if by "at their houses"...
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Oct.29.2009
You can tell kids there are no such things as monsters. But you'd be lying. Let's be honest for a change, for the sake of Halloween and all that's hallow. There are monsters out there, and most of them are dressed up like humans. Jaycee Lee Dugard, the California girl who was kidnapped at age...
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About Ripley
Ripley Patton is an American short story writer living happily on the South Island of New Zealand. Being much more concerned with truth than fact, she happily spends her days (and nights) writing mostly science fiction and fantasy. She is a staunch supporter...