Category: Commentary
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Critiquing
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Groups are fascinating, infinite whorls of personalities spinning off and away. I sit in on two groups with Jane, one which she leads and I make contributions when I can and the other Jane and I are participants without teaching responsibilities. The groups combined are mostly women, three men including…
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Presently Involved
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I am presently involved in two writing groups which are of interest to me on several levels. Both groups involve writing — critiquing stories, journaling. The variety and mix of men and women, mostly women, is revealing. Some come into the group tooting their own horns, revealing their writer’s resume…
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Diastema
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When the dentist labeled the marked gap between my two front teeth as “diastema,” I didn’t quite get it, thinking that he had said diaspora. After the confusion lifted, we both chuckled as I explained to this 38- year-old Mormon dentist what the diaspora was, it too, in its way, a marked gap.…
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Hard Put
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I am hard put to explain Ann Coulter’s race hatred as recently expressed to a Muslim woman student in Canada in which she suggested if the student could not get a cab she should take a camel. (Of course, in a recent column by her Coulter wraps herself in the issue…