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People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos in Camden
Locked up with literature
Sometimes a participant’s response in a People & Stories group has made a story spin on its axis. It happened frequently at the Camden Youth Center, where my life experiences and those of participants were so starkly different.
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Just for (Vain) Men
Isn't it ironic that when you reach your 60s, you do things to try to make yourself look younger that you would have done in times past to look older?
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Compassion
Should there be a mutually respected statute of attenuation when it comes to the dissemination of bad news?
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Vampires through the years
Nightmares of the past reborn
Vampires have changed through the ages, as has their meaning, both on the surface and in subtext. This is a look at these mythical beings through a pop culture lens.
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James Garner: An appreciation
James Garner passed away at 86 as real heroes should: from natural causes, the ultimate ending for a performer who made acting seem so natural.
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Pondering the life of creation
What does it mean to live a life of creation? Is it a withdrawal from the world? Or the primary source of continuous change?
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The misbegotten right to be forgotten
Can a new Google rule save a humor writer from himself?
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The gut-punch of kids’ poetry
Fighting words
The women dance the poems my students wrote; they shout, they punch phrases with choral readings or echo words for emphasis, using hands and mouths and eyes to semaphore anger, silliness, betrayal, and sorrow.
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Amy Adams gives up her first-class seat to a soldier
How should we support our troops?
The actress Amy Adams made the news recently by giving up her first-class plane seat to a soldier flying coach. Do we owe our troops anything more?
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