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Debra Rienstra

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Six Letters, Starts with a P

It was one of those mysterious, sudden impulses that came on me like a message from aliens: you must do crossword puzzles. It hit me

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Conference of the Creatures

“All right, everybody. Can you hear me OK?” The Matriarch of all Elephants calls the Zoom meeting to order. “Blurb blurb blurby blurb blurb.” “Dolphin,

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Biblical Quarantines: A Survey

The media is constantly telling us that we are now in “the age of social distancing”—not the moment, not the time, not a few weeks,

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Pious Petunia [Hearts] U

It’s time once again to welcome guest blogger and advice columnist Pious Petunia, offering timely wisdom and incisively soothing commentary on modern romance. Dear Miss

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Thirty Days, Thirty Books

Over the years, during many a frigid January in Michigan, while dragging out of bed in the winter darkness to teach a three-hour-a-day interim course

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