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How much living and how much writing?
Mary Oliver, Joni Mitchell, and searching for the perfect ratio
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Dogs honking horns and how to figure out what to give our attention to
Last week my husband and I were walking down Main Street in our little town.
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Voting isn't our only power
It's time to get serious about creating the world we want to live in, day-by-day and moment-by-moment
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How we get through
The first draft of a plan
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October 2024

I hate this about us
I conduct an experiment and continue to remind myself of our essential goodness as demonstrated through Halloween
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Comforting songs for trying times: "You are the everything," by R.E.M.
I have this seminal memory that shows up over and over again in my writing.
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We see social class
Even after teaching for over twenty years, I’m not always very good at predicting how different assignments or activities will work.
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I'm halfway through Inktober and here's what I've learned
Fur is hard to draw
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The chaos lapping at the edge of our lives
When explorers like Columbus stumbled onto a landmass on their haphazard voyages across the water, they were always trying to figure out whether they’d…
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Ask a Sociologist: Why we can't predict shit
My new feature where people ask me random questions and I attempt to answer them
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September 2024

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