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Rise above the tedium and join me in the TreeHouse. Sharing the best ideas and writing, MyLinh Shattan has a particular fondness for words, music, and the power of story. “I adore your podcasts; each and every one is a little gem. You never say three words when two will do. Everything you do shows unusual respect and appreciation for your listeners’ time and intelligence.” Buzz, former Managing Editor for News and Public Affairs Programming at WHRB-FM/Harvard Radio Broadcasting
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Is it still there? Flag Day and Those Who Serve
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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I deny that I died for anything.
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May 28, 2026 |
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One Thing My Daughter Has That I Did Not
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May 01, 2026 |
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A Veteran's Four-Word Rule
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Old Boys Rugby: "Scum of the Earth" Sings Second
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Tsundoku and Goodreaads giveaway
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Stick Season, 10000 Hours, and a Book on the Way
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Punch, Roll, and Breathe: The Art of Audiobook Narration
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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The Man in Row 9
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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On Fathers and Storytelling: The Merchant of Saigon
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Poetry for Emergencies: Love Fiercely
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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When Life is Like a Country Music Song
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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In the Bardo: Referring to the Dead in the Present Tense
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Saigon, 50 Years Ago Today
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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In Search of the Blue flower
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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You're Not Wasting Your Time . . .
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Sirsasana, King of Asanas
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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The Monk, the Nun, and the Poet
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Nice or Not-so-nice? A $14,000 Dress
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Ichigo Ichie: One Time, One Meeting
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Water, Water: A Year-end Muse
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Giving Thanks for Civility
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Giving Thanks for Civility
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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A Sutra on Solitude
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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An Angel Number, 1111
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Why an 84-Year-Old Goes to the Polls
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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An Omen and 3 Ravens
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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They'll Grow In Their Own Sunlight
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Living on Hot Dogs
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Dinner with Obama
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Queen Amahn, the Third Circle of Hell
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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St. Louis and the Sublime
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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My Car and a Helicopter Got in a Fight
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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"These United Colonies . . . are Free and Independent States"
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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A Stoic on Stupidity and Plumbing
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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The Curse of the Bootlegger's Daughter
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Northeast by Northwest: How Travel Changes Me*
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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"Well-Intentioned Fools"
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Memorial Day Speech: We're Here Today Because They Lived
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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"We Lived, Felt Dawn, Saw Sunset Glow"
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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That Teacher, You Know the One
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Midwest Mandala
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Semper Fidelis
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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On Poetry, Spring, and Transition
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Small Delight: The Unexpected and the Good
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Dirtman and Dillard on Signs of the Apocalypse
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Deez Nutz*
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Who Does Not Prefer Civility to Barbarism?*
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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How to Improve Your Writing - Part 2: from Confucius to Lincoln
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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What Men Live By*
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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How to Improve Your Writing - Part 1
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Superior to the Saint, the Scientist, the Philosopher, and the Poet?
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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An Alabama Road
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Town Mouse and Country Mouse
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Living Outside the Page
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Books for the Casual and Serious Reader
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Involved and Implicated: Narcissism and Poetry
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Giving Thanks for a Man I Never Met
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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On Flesh-Eating Beetles and the Sins of the Mother
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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In the Company of Heroes
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Spooky Hour with Spirits of the Dead
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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What's in your trunk?
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Why Do I Run?
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Fall is Like a Country Music Song
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Trailway to Heaven
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Through the Keyhole
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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The Ever Restless Soul
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Confusables, Contronyms, and Jane's Potato Salad
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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The Music in Stories: Pavan on Borges
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Beyond Grade-School Sentences: Adding Depth and Texture to Writing
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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On Theft, Death, and the Moon
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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The Master Sentence and the Centenarian
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Three Days in Sun Valley and the Best Writing Teacher
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Classic Prose: Thought and Presentation
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Biblical Times - Fire and Flood
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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July 4th Declarations: a Nation, a Panda, a Soldier
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Goggins, Pushup Yoga, and the Art of the Paragraph
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Where's Your Cathedral?
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Degree of Separation
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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What makes a speech great?
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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"It is precisely because life is so precious to me that I am prepared to die."
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May 27, 2023 |
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The Cure for Resentment and Cynicsim
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May 23, 2023 |
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Weasel Words
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May 16, 2023 |
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What makes a single person's death feel large?*
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May 06, 2023 |
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Wild Horses Dragged Me Away
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Go Slow to Go Fast
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Sleep on It: Darkness Helps Us See the Light
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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A Day With the Night Stalkers
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Hey, why aren't dogs alcoholics?
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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The Edgeless Sound and the Night Owl
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Belief is a Powerful Elixir
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Presciption for Life and Rumi's Cow
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Two Things Everybody's Got to Do
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Good Luck and Smooth Sailing in the Year of the Cat
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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How to Capture a Life in 400 Words
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Punch In, Punch Out: the Profession and the Side Hustle
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Pithy and Practical - Time in Memoir
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Giving Thanks for Dissent and Cookies
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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On Perfect Love and Longing
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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"Kinda This, Kinda That" in the Mid-pack
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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What to Say When People Thank You for Your Military Service
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Everyone Should Write
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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What can music teach us about writing?
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Reading for Foodies: Zauner's memoir, Crying in H-Mart
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Bringing Writers and Readers Together
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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"Old Age is Not for the Young"*
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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What Book Would You Take to a Desert Island?
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Charlie Munger and the Art of Swearing
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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The Sentence Fragment
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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No Ordinary Hike: Marchback for the USMA Class of 2026
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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On Fighting and Writing: Blackwing and Bruce Lee
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Spandrel: Byproduct of Evolution and Thing of Beauty
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Thoughts on Music and the Brain
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Essays that changed me: Alison Lurie and 'When most boys... joined the armed services.'
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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Simba the Designer Dog? A Perfect Combination of 5 Breeds
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Notes on a Year of Love
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Why I write
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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"The Q-tips Are for Your M4" and the Art of the Paragraph
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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"Keep the Faith For Which They Died" this Memorial Day
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May 30, 2022 |
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The Last Recital
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May 28, 2022 |
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"Django with One Finger," a Living Music Icon
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May 22, 2022 |
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On Puppies and Babies: a "Communion with Terror"
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May 17, 2022 |
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Books for Mothers and Daughters
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May 06, 2022 |
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What Makes a Speech Great? an Admiral Tells 3 Stories
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May 03, 2022 |
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Exercises in Style: a Writing Tribute
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May 03, 2022 |
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1000 Push-ups? Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Bedside Counselor on Parenting in Anger, in Two Translations
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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What I Learned Walking With a Friend
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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A Poet Warrior Learns Kindness
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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A Fool is Full and a Pool Not a Pull
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Three Sunsets in One Day
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Each sentence reflects 3 choices
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Spicy Rooster and a Coffee Outpost
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Firecracker and a Humble Queen
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Essays that changed me: Rachel Cusk and “Making Home”
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Writing on the Road and the Creative Process
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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Poetry for Emergencies: Ukraine, Howard Nemerov, and the War Dead
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Sex Over 70 Years and the Synecdoche
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Adult Child and a Zen Koan
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Love in a Sad Cafe
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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A Valentine Canine and the Circle of Life
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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If You Want to Write, Your Writing Has to Have Rhythm
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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The Meaning in Music
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Coaching Habit by Stanier: Short Take on How to Avoid Crappy Advice for the Wrong Problem
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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Books as Trophies, the Bibliophile vs the Bibliophagist
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Thay's Miracle: Short Take on a Long Life (Thich Nhat Hanh)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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The Sexy Semicolon, Really?
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Poetry for Emergencies: Lain S. Thomas at Daybreak
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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New Year: Goals Versus Habits
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Graveside Gratitude, Giving Thanks in November
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Summer's End
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Alaska Mountains May Spoil You For All the Rest
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Father and His Letters
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Memorial Day, Reflection and Celebration
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May 31, 2021 |
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April Dreams
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Two Truths and a Lie, a Fools Game
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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I Met a Man at the Top of Chimney Rock
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Family Travel in a Pandemic - By Air and By Land
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Giving Thanks in 2020 & Simon's List
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Spirits of the Fall: Episode (4) Toddler Vision
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Spirits of the Fall: Episode (3) Visits From Beyond
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Spirits of the Fall: Episode (2) Where the Driveway Ends
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Spirits of the Fall: Episode (1) In the House
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Learning to Run
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Would You Kneel? A College Coach & a Veteran on the National Anthem
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Birthday and Death Day, Catholics and Customs
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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The Vulgar Parrot
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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On Becoming Sheepdogs, A Modern Fable
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Memorial Day Reflection - Two Poems and a Tribute
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May 26, 2020 |
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Why Nursing Homes Suck
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May 17, 2020 |
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Are We Killing the Fat Man? The Corona Trolley Dilemma
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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For The Class of 2020 During the Pandemic
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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The Three Gifts - What have you learned in 50 years?
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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On Presidents, Politics and War, and Poetry
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Raise Your Glass! A Toast by W.B. Yeats
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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The Light in Your Day - a New Take on Winter
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag - A Russian Novel About Your Life
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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A Book for Everyone, Even Nonreaders and Grinches
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Giving Thanks in 2019 - Looking Back on Life's Big Questions
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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TikTok Connect the Dots - the United States and China
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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A View From Above: Army Colonel Ken Mintz on Afghanistan
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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You've tidied up your closet and your house. Why not tidy up your writing?
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Murphy's Law and the Army Ten-Miler
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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On Poetry and Mondegreens and Teenagers
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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The Making of a Myth or Legend - Stephen Siller
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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For the Love of Milk
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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A Case for the Personal Letter
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Suicide and Suffering - Army Veteran and Secular Buddhist on the Four Noble Truths
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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Whales, Migration, and Back-to-School
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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In These Walls
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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Kili at 50 - Episode 3 -Summit Assault and Days 5 & 6
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Kili at 50 - Episode 2 - Jambo! Dreadlocks & Day 4
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Aug 10, 2019 |
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Kili at 50 - Episode 1 - Hiking Kilimanjaro on the Machame Route in Six Days
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Aug 09, 2019 |