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Author of RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM. Work in The New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, and others. www.ohjoy.org
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I can almost hear her brain churning.
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Do you have a way for people to bypass the reading fee if they can't afford it?
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That's his soul.
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I know, right? No one is stopping him, or even pushing back that hard. It's so strange.
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There is a lot of cheese in your stories, which I respect.
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Here is a colorized poster from the time. No one knows what this dress was!
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Thanks! I've heard that. Sounds refreshing.
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That is what I hoped, that it was red. I also like the idea of orange or yellow or black. But someone sent me this, which if true, is disappointing to me:
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It's sad. One of his teachers told me spelling is like cursive, where they just had to let go of teaching it.
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Bullshit. I told him his tool is his brain.
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At our conference, his teacher pronounced he would "just not be a good speller" now and needed to use "tools" to help him with this issue. I guess she meant a computer app or AI to change his spelling mistakes for him for the rest of his life.
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I have almost done that! Rakes are a menace.
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Wore my kid out hiking
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My article on how John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath thwarted the publication of Babb's Dust Bowl novel until right before her death.
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Search your name here.
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Reading this book now. I'm enjoying it!
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What it's actually like: