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Repetitive Redundancies Dept. -- #1

Ah yes, the unnecessary modifier. Writing instructors and journalists have railed for millennia against those words that sound...

Nothing Rotten: Our Danish Exchange Student's Family Shares Their Denmark With Us

When my wife Beckie and I became empty nesters, we thought we were done with the exchange student experience. But in the summer of 2019,...

Alopecia Leads Extraordinary Woman To Find Her Inner - and Outer - Beauty

Hannah Horstmyer was 13 when she first started noticing large clumps of hair left behind in her hairbrush after a swim practice. It kept...

Return To Childhood: Portrait On 2½ x 3½ Inch Cardboard

I first saw them on the back of a box of cereal my mom had brought home with the other groceries. Each kind of Post cereal had six...

A Modern Folkie Tale

I was maybe six years old when my parents put on a record, probably not the first time, of an album entitled "The Weavers at Carnegie...

That Annoying Cheerfulness Some People Exhibit Has A Name

I came across a term used on a local NPR program today that I hadn't heard before, and thought was interesting. It describes those folks...