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Link: ‘Life Keeps Changing’: Why Stories, Not Science, Explain the World – Atlantic Mobile
Short, thoughtful interview with an author who left science to pursue Story. ‘Life Keeps Changing’: Why Stories, Not Science, Explain the World – Atlantic Mobile.’ The natural world is a source of wonder and even horror for Jennifer Percy, author of Demon Camp, but science can only explain so much. After Percy read Lawrence Sargent…
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The Backstory: First dates, “and the rest is history”
My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the category “Biography,” if you’re interested. ~~~~~~~~~~ I wish I knew more about how my parents met. This is all I got so far: My mom lived & worked in Connellsville. My dad lived in the same town, though he…
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The Backstory: Winter nights, snowy days, and an Appalachian woodcutter
My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the category “Biography,” if you’re interested. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My parents relocated our family to the top of an Appalachian mountain by the time I was 3. One wall of our living room, 7 feet tall by 16 feet wide, was solid…
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Sorrowing with those who sorrow: wise words of advice
A fantastic column in the New York Times today offers timely and thoughtful, real-world suggestions for people who stand just outside the circle of grief or tragedy – those of us who wonder what we can do to help, but often walk away because we don’t know what to do. It’s a short piece but…
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Must read: Listening to Nirvana with a Two-Year-Old : The New Yorker
One of the best things I’ve read in a long time. Here’s an excerpt; don’t skip reading the whole article. (link follows the quote) Listening to the song with my son, I noticed an abandon that was childish in its total commitment. You can hear it in the force with which Grohl hits the…
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