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On a sunny river bank, a deer is sleeping—but when our canoe glides past, she leaps up and bounds into the woods. We pose no threat to the deer, but she…
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As a child, Carrie Leaureax overheard her grandparents speak the language of her Anishinaabe (Native American) culture. “Anishinaabemowin was forbidden at…
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We have an ancient Catalpa tree in our back yard which likely predates our old house and certainly predates the Norway Spruces with whom it shares space.…
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“I had a deep interest in history from Day One,” Fel Brunett says. “I was born in the house my great-grandfather built in 1881.” Fel still lives in that…
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Sitting in the bow of the canoe, I pick up the old wooden paddle. For the first few strokes, I have to concentrate—plunge, pull, lift, twist—but soon the…
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Homer asked if I wanted to go to Stonehenge. “We’ll have to hitch-hike,” he said so we took the London tube as far West as we could and stood in the rain…
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“I got my first pair of glasses at age ten,” Nathan Baas recalls. “I really liked my optometrist and he said, think about this for a career. So he planted…
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Fresh out of college, I took a job teaching eighth grade English. One of my classes was a group of students who were struggling, academically and…
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When Mr. Vandenberg announced himself as the substitute teacher in our tenth grade English class, we all nodded. We knew what to do with substitute…
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Josh Baldwin was studying accounting in college and wondering about a career when he started dating a gymnast. “I was taking her to physical therapy all…