Part of the History
Growing Up in a Title IX World It was not lost on me as a child that my father wrote his college thesis on Title IX. And it is not lost...
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NOVEMBER 2024
Volume V, Issue II
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Choose Your Mind
30 Days Deep...Sometimes 31 The Inspiration: Two forms of distraction are generally available at our finger tips in every second of every...
The Time Machine - The 1900s to the Early-1930s
(Read full series here) Welcome to the third installment of The Time Machine! This month, we’re going to take a deep dive into the early...
The Party at the Pond
Observations and photos from Laurelhurst Park, meant to be read aloud Everyday at just past dusk I bundle up to peek the ducks. The days...
Are You Happy?
The Inspiration: In America, when we meet people for the first time or when we gather with friends, we tend to ask questions like: What...
The Boy on the Road
I should’ve ignored the phone call at 3 a.m. from a childhood acquaintance. I didn’t. Groggy and curious, I answered. He was on I-95 – 15...
Plane Crash Monologue
'China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashes en route to Guangzhou' - March 21, 2022 We married during the finale, in a screaming church...
Kyiv
How can the stars be so bright and constant when the earth is covered by smoke and uncertainty? One side of the world wakes to sirens and...
Danuta (Donna) Strzalkowski
Alter ego/ Stage name: ~ Sorrow Astrasa ~ Born: February 8, (never told us) Died: March 21, 2022 In 1990, my parents were young and...
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