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Today I stood in an Ohio corn field owned by my third-great-grandfather, Joseph J. Parrett, nearly 200 years ago. It’s early June and the slender, soft green corn stalks extend only about a foot above the soil. The field lies in Jefferson Township in Fayette County, not far from Parrett Station Road, named for my [...]
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My spring classes ended last week, setting my students adrift until fall without weekly writing nudges from me. Whatever will they do with all that free time this summer? I feel a bit like a hand-wringing parent who has just sent her daughter off to college for the first time. Maybe a reminder letter from [...]
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Trying to help my students envision the bigger picture when they’re writing their stories, I assigned them to explain in two sentences what their life story is all about. To help them along, I told them to think of the paragraph they would put on the back of a book jacket that would tempt people [...]
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