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The love of making sentences and of discovering insights in the process.
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Shepherd: A Memoir
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A special sentence structure
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Cumulative form fosters a rich, lovely, rhythmic prose style.
[I took this photo of a ceiling in China.]
Cumulative form fosters a rich, lovely, rhythmic prose style.
Read more of this blog post »[Nine years ago today, I started this blog. It will be on hiatus with today’s post, my 510th. I’m in a transition into semi-retirement, and preparing to teach this Fall semester at Radford University, in southwestern Virginia, while continuing a memoir workshop I’ve taught for the
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Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir:
"I know I’m biased. Megan is my brilliant sister. But this book touched on pain and vulnerability that made me pause, reflect, and think. Her perspective is so needed in our country today and I am grateful for her willingness to share it. Even the rea"
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"This book is beautiful, wrenching, brave, and necessary. Megan Doney is a writer whose words move through you and carry you along on her journey. As a fellow teacher, this memoir should be required reading for all of us who are bracing for the moment"
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| On April 12, 2013, a teenage boy “having a bad week” shot and wounded two people at New Riv-er Community College, in Christiansburg, VA. With low casualties, and no deaths, the event hard-ly merited the national news. After all, on an April six years ...more | |
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Caleb Carr’s account of living for almost two decades with a special cat has been hailed as the finest memoir of a cat ever written. It’s easy to agree. He brings uncommon experience with cats and a warm storytelling ability to My Beloved Monster: Ma ...more |
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“The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term "agribusiness." (pg. 285, The Use of Energy)”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
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“The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
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Otterbein Teaching & Learning Book Discussions
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A space to discuss books on teaching and learning in higher education, hosted by the Center for Teaching & Learning at Otterbein University. ...more
National Book Critics Circle
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The National Book Critics Circle honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature.
