Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide […]
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Japan
Japan Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating the same small, perfect
Marginalia
Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just
Taking off Emily Dickenson’s Clothes
Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes First, her tippet made of tulle, easily lifted off her shoulders and laid on the back of a wooden
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Consolation
Consolation How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How much better to cruise
Child Development
Child Development As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs and sauntered off the beaches into forests working up some irregular verbs for their first conversation,
The History Teacher
by Billy Collins ‘The History Teacher By Billy Collins Trying to protect his students’ innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just
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Foster care and Child Protective – be careful
Kindapping of Logan Marr (Frontline-PBS) Frontline ^ | Me Posted on 10/23/2003 8:13:18 PM PDT by Naspino Did anyone else just see Frontline on PBS.
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Parents sue state for charing them with kidnapping
Case Study Latest Parker Jensen’s Family Goes Back to Courtroom – Lawsuit: The parents name physicians, state agencies in the battle over cancer treatment
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More parents kidnapping (?) their kids…
Parents Arrested For Kidnapping Infant Daughter POSTED: 5:16 pm PDT July 13, 2007 UPDATED: 6:19 pm PDT July 13, 2007 PORTERVILLE, Calif. — A Bakersfield
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