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Freshman Dorm: Masterpiece or Trash?
It was 1991, and we were the 5th-grade girls in Mrs. Shaw’s 5th/6th-grade classroom. We were in a gifted and talented program, the kind of classrooms popular in the 1980s and 90s where the supposed best and brightest were corralled into a classroom and pushed in all things creative and academic. We were smart girls.…
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The Writing Process
The current process…There’s so much that I want to write, but when you’re missing someone you lost, the winter months are the longest. A very good friend once sent me the song “Long December”on a particularly rough day, and I always listen to it knowing that yes, the next few weeks will be hard, but…