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Marilyn McEntyre

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Being Prepared

How often has any of us heard someone, bemused, say aloud, “I didn’t know I had it in me.”

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Loaded Language

Words are absorbent. Used often enough in partisan slogans or ad campaigns, or by certain religious groups or by “influencers” (itself a word with a

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A Single Shoe

“Return” by Anya Krugovoy Silver When he returned home after many years,an enormous oak had split his house in two,its trunk growing right through the

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Still Life with Words

My brother and I grew up in a small house with four adults–two parents, two grandparents, all of whom had things to say. All of

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Where Branches Touch

Today I won’t pretend to understandthe ways we care for one another.Today I will simply standin these thick woods and lovehow the branches of one

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Burned at the Stake

Heretic martyr, chained to the stake, Jan Hus sangand prayed while a hooded executioner held a torchto the dry sticks that pricked his feetand a

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Paying Attention

I recently finished reading Stolen Focus by Johann Hari and have been urging friends to hasten out, get a copy, and do likewise. In this

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Dr. Ida

Most kids my age wouldn’t have found a lengthy biography of a medical missionary gripping summer reading. I wasn’t a particularly pious child, though my

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