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Photos from Bangladesh: A Campaign with World Vision Canada
Photographer Sophia Hsin uses her camera to speak out against child labor: “Now that I know about these things, it seems quite foolish to stay silent.”
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Goodbye Piper
Dementia took the mind of Bruce Jenkins’ mother, but it could not erase their shared love of words. “Take a book, and read to her just as she read to you.”
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Being Her by Hermon and HerodaHermon and Heroda are twins who became deaf at age seven. At their blog, Being Her, they share their love for fashion, travel, and photography.
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The Alan Turing InstituteThe Alan Turing Institute is the United Kingdom’s national institute for data science. Turing’s work in theoretical and applied mathematics, engineering, and computing are considered to be the foundation of the data science field.
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Writer (and Former Acrobat) Allison K. Williams on Overcoming Fear
How do you dust yourself off after rejection and move ahead?
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Epiphany 2.0: N.K. JemisinThe official site of speculative fiction author N.K. Jemisin. A prolific author, Jemisin is the first black person to win the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel for The Fifth Season.
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The Old Green Singers
Angie recalls her family’s beat-up truck, “Old Green,” which became a concert hall on wheels as she, her mom, and her brothers sang their way through good times and bad.
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Negative Inspiration
When there was nothing else for Kevin Richard White, there was writing: “I want them to know we’re given a voice at birth. We’re given a chance to use it. All you need is paper and time.”
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The Tragically HipThe official site of Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, inducted into the Order of Canada in 2017.
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Teaching My Kids to Survive in ‘Merica
A mom reflects on preparing her 12-year-old sons to fly alone, to grandma’s house in today’s America: “I thought we would at least get to girls before we got to guns. But this has been an extraordinary year, full of violence and bigotry.”
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What Do You Love More?
Allison K. Williams ruminates on the fear of failing: “Publication or not getting hurt feelings. What do you love more?”
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Get it Done! What’s Your Best Tip for Sitting Down to Write?
When it comes to writing, how do you get it done?
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A very good dog
Lacy reflects on her aging dog, Una: “I know that summer and its fruit, like the life of a good dog, won’t last long. Or at least not nearly long enough.”
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Only Dreams in Total Darkness
Meghan McClure offers an apéritif in advance of the release of her book, A Single Throat Opens, a collaborative exploration of addiction: “We want to shake the guilt of truth from us. Embrace it all as misremembered, jumbled dream, some delusional belief.”
