The Rambling

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Sarah Kearns

Sea Glass Shadows

One day, knowing how much you love the beach and cats, our mom will find a book that happens...

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Ioan Marc Jones

Two Fools, Among Others

It started with Jack Kerouac, unfortunately. I was a performatively masculine seventeen-year-old, like most people reading Kerouac, and I...

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Lynne Stahl

A to Zikaron: Re(t)reading Animalia

“An Armored Armadillo Avoiding An Angry Alligator:” so begins Graeme Base’s 1986 alphabet book Animalia, a menagerie of animals,...

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Liz Schoppelrei

Dear American Girl, I am Getting Top Surgery

Your body is talking to you. Can you hear it? Learn to tune in to your body and hear...

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Tim Faught

Parenting and Perspective

My daughter is in the first grade, and her teacher gives her a packet of homework for the week...

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Nathan Schmidt

Edmund

I always liked Aslan a little better than Jesus. The Christ of the Bible could be rather erratic—a trait...

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Benjamin J.Q. Khoo

Golden Hours

I lost reading along the way growing up, shedding the stripes that had marked a bookish boyhood. The fad...

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Maya Little

The Life That is Waiting For Us

The first time anyone asked me what I thought of A Room with a View, I said, “sure, it’s...

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B. Pladek

The Corrosive Sublime

Towards the end of the barricade sequence in Les Misérables, Victor Hugo remarks, Victory, when in accord with progress,...

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