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Read more: Books I’ve been reading
Books I’ve been reading
No comments on Books I’ve been readingLost in the Moment and Found by award-winning author Seanan McGuire, the latest entry in her Wayward Children series. This book focuses on Antsy, who we first saw in Where The Drowned Girls Go. It is a challenging book that includes parental death and a manipulative stepparent, but also victorious as Antsy runs and learns […]
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Read more: Three Things
Three Things
From an article on improving treatment of prisoners and staff in prisons to improve rehabilitation: Unlike in the United States, almost all incarcerated people in Norway are ultimately released, Roer said, which got officers thinking more about how to rehabilitate those who will rejoin society.“And we started to say, ‘What kind of neighbor do we […]
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Read more: “Ask for Jane”
“Ask for Jane”
A good article on women who were illegal abortionists in 1968-1973. Some of the stories she recalls are heartbreaking. They reflect a time when access even to birth control was limited; when a patchwork of abortion regulations meant that women with the economic means to travel could find care in states that allowed abortion, but […]
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Read more: Adapting to climate change by raising your house
Adapting to climate change by raising your house
Like, on stilts. Marketplace – the NPR show that became a favorite commute listen and eventually a favorite podcast commute listen – discusses how a woman who spent $97.5k on her house ended up spending $100k (mostly from a FEMA grant) to raise it more than 8 feet. Half a dozen workers, drenched in sweat […]
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Read more: Martin Luther King Jr Day
Martin Luther King Jr Day
It’s a holiday in the US to remember (and hopefully learn from) the life of The Rev Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Read more: Doctors and dentists and blood, oh my!
Doctors and dentists and blood, oh my!
Last week I noticed my jaw was hurting a bit. Always in the same place. Was something wrong? It went away over the weekend, but came back on Monday. It was bad enough on Monday that I called the dentist. I soon had an appointment for Wed afternoon. In the meantime, I took a Tylenol […]
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