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House of Cards by
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Prompted By Games People Play

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I grew up in a house of cards. Literally.
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2021: A Space Oddity by
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Would you like to swing on a star?
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There Was an Interview Here by
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Prompted By Interviews

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In the Spring of 2016, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by one of my favorite teachers at Saint Mary’s College– Alex Green. Although I was a little bit nervous, Alex is such a great interviewer that I got comfortable onstage with him immediately. We were there to talk about my recently published memoir,…
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Named After by
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Prompted By What's in a Name

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“You don’t look Chinese!”
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How to Use a Drill by
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Now, I remember why I hate Ikea.
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Be Careful Who You Follow by
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While watching TV last week, I was absent-mindedly scrolling though Instagram, “liking” random photos of British royalty and Patriots, equally. Somehow, I must have liked and followed something called “julianedelmanofficialfanpage”. If it really was his fan page, it would have been marked with a blue checked circle, as is every account of a famous person,…
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Finding a New Home Town by
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If home is the place “where everybody knows your name,” where you have friends that date back over 50 years, Evanston is my home town.
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In the Beginning a/k/a Original Spin by
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Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman . . ." And the 'woman' said, "Say, what?" And God said, "Let the games begin."
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Larger and larger tribes by
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Prompted By Faith

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...it is also comforting to believe that consciousness does not end with physical death.
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Necessary Chore by
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Prompted By Laundry

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As with cooking, I did not learn to do laundry from my mother. She had household help for much of her life. I learned to iron (a task she NEVER learned) in the costume shop at camp in 1967. That was useful. We had a service that washed the sheets, but we had to make…
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