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Dana VanderLugt

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Wintering

The first time you seesomething die, you won’t know it mightcome back… -Maggie Smith, First Fall It’s been a cloudy, cloudy month in these parts. 

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Drawing a Line

I was lying in bed last Sunday, scrolling through Facebook, and debating whether to get up and start the day, when I came across a

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Postcard from the Lake

My family and I recently went camping on the shores of Lake Michigan. I spent every second I could next to that big, beautiful body

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Roller Skates and Blue Dresses

I was in first grade when my grandmother won the award for “youngest grandma” at my elementary school’s Grandparent’s Day assembly. I remember getting up

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No Easy Answers

My youngest son is the king of questions. His ten-year-old brain and his mouth seem to spin from the moment he opens his eyes in

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Geometry, Broccoli, and Jesus

Last week, I attended a seminar for educational leaders called Adaptive Schools. Led by Carolyn McKanders, who spent 28 years in the Detroit Public Schools

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