Book Banning is Not the Answer

Book Banning is Not the Answer From the outright banishment of Shel Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic for encouraging children to “break rather than wash” their dishes to the rise of “sensitivity readers” as an integral...

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Intersection-Sitting and Other Problems

I hate driving. All of it. As if it helps, I never drive with the radio on, always under the speed limit, and make more unnecessary stops than there are cars in downtown’s infamous, always-overflooded-but-I’ll-still-go-look-to-see-if-there’s-a-spot...

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Of Oldest and Eldest Siblings

“Are you the oldest?”, a woman interrogates, exaggeratedly gesturing in my direction. Amused, I glance at my siblings and chirp, “Yep,” before leading my siblings away. Of the many questions my siblings and...

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Just a Garage

  It’s nothing special. Really, it’s just like every other garage. It’s crowded, cluttered, and anyone who dares enter to look for something always leaves carrying something else. And though its contents have...

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