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David Ocker '73: David Raksin Centenary
(If you read this entire article you'll learn how I once broke into David Raksin's house and why I can never think of that event without also thinking of bad cheesecake. Now read on...)David Raksin...
View ArticleKaren Mardahl '79: The Wonder of Dark Skies and Stars
Have you ever looked up at a night sky packed with stars? My most vivid memory of a night sky was one where the “stars were so densely packed that you couldn’t make out any familiar constellations.” I...
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Cheryl Klein: A Plot Excuse to Watch Out For: "But Then Where Would Have Been...
A couple of weeks ago, in the course of work, I was thinking about the last line quoted here from Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers: As she spoke she with difficulty restrained her tears; but she...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Simple Brackets Make DIY Furniture Dreams Come True
[ By Delana in Design & Furniture & Decor. ] Designing and building custom furniture requires some amount of knowledge and technical skill. These facts put custom furniture design out of the...
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Margaret Taylor: Ravensdaughters_Tale_Smashwords
The Smashwords edition of “Ravensdaughter’s Tale” is complete and now up on the site. Even if you weren’t a backer of the Kickstarter campaign, now’s your chance to get a copy. It’s only 99 cents....
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Games Off: Artistic Echoes of the Lost Olympic Games
[ By Steve in Art & Drawing & Digital. ] Three Summer Olympic Games and two Winter Olympic Games have been canceled since Athens hosted the inaugural games of the modern Olympiad in 1896. Few...
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Dan Schofer '00
8-4-2012Mud + Irish + Palisades + Town. 60 minutes. 8 miles.Warm and humid. Slow and easy run.
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8-5-2012Green Ridge + Town. 75 minutes. 10 miles.Mild and nice. Slow, easy run. [Week: 74 miles]
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Cheryl Klein: "God Speaks..." by Rainer Maria Rilke
God speaks to each, before he makes him,then goes silently with him out of the darkness.But the words, before each one starts,these cloudy words, are:Driven by your senses,go to the edge of your...
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Hai Ngo '12: Stewsie Island
Theo Stroomer hired me to assist him for the wedding of Carleton College’s alumni Adam (’07) and Chelsea (’07). Mother Nature started the day by testing Adam’s nerves with on and off stormy clouds and...
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Avery Morrow '10: Does God Exist? A Japanese Children’s Book Explains
かみさまはいる いない？ (2012) Shuntaro Tanikawa I was surprised to see my local library put in its childrens’ rack a book about the existence of God, supplementing their amusing and popular series about the...
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Kelly O'Brien '12: "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep...
“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.” - Haruki Murakami
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Kevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Sunday August...
Get your own valid XHTML YouTube embed codeAhh, I've been waiting to be the one that compiles the Smartphone Bathroom Reader just to share the above video with you all. THAT is a top ten all-time...
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Naomi Dietzel Hershiser '99: My Magical Morning
Saturday evening, rain came through at the head of a cool front. It brought near-perfect weather for Sunday and today, with my sunrise run taking place in actual coolth. Those conditions created a...
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