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- The Perils of Prophecy
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- “Mom, What’s the Right Age to Start Having Sex?”
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- What Are We Preparing Our Students For?
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- A Terminal Curable Disease
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- Expanding the Universe
- Today’s Reason to Love the Humans
- “A Hologram for the King”
- What Would Dashiell Hammett Do?
- “Popping the Hood”
- Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
- The End.
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- A New Year Every Day
- We Don’t Need Books to Free. We Need Them to be Brilliant.
- An Angel Packs a Suitcase
- The Other Julie Goldberg
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- “The Circus of Dreams”
- Perfect Whole, Superstorm Sandy Edition
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- Unfriended
- The Anti-Debate
- An Imperfect Conduit
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Tag Archives: poetry
A Terminal Curable Disease
I’ve been brewing an essay on the illness that is perfectionism for a long time now. It’s not quite cooked yet. But this morning, after a terrible loss in our community, the thought came out like this: Be a beautiful … Continue reading
Today’s Reason to Love the Humans
Today’s Reason to Love the Humans They are vain selfish obtuse They shimmer with holy light so hard it hurts their eyes And love each other helplessly stupidly beautifully. They each get exactly one life And every day they remember … Continue reading
