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Rebecca Koerselman

Something New

It is good to try something new. But the more years that pass, I become more hesitant to try new things, particularly when there is

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Rapid Thigh Movement

I wasn’t very flexible, and had long legs and a shorter torso, so the V Sit and Reach wasn’t an area where I excelled. The

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Talking to People

Podcasts. Talk shows. Chat shows. Texts. Books. Audio books. News. Newspapers. Articles. Substacks. Letters. Mail. Advertisements. Subreddits. Tweets. Insta Reels. TikTok videos. Even billboards. There

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Jefferson’s Children

Historical fiction is a tricky trope. We have information from the past, but are usually missing quite a few pieces. It is fun to fill

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An Overland Trip

One historian described it as an expedition that seemed a “tedious march from one place to another made known to them by Indians and French

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Incurious

Are you a person that has an answer for everything? Jemar Tisby, an American historian, wrote a meditation entitled “The People Who Don’t Have Any

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The Lord’s Army

Some of those jingly jangly camp songs still pop into my head from time to time (this one, in the tune of ‘The Old Grey

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Getting the Side Eye

While watching a reality show, I noticed a group of white women explain to the non-white woman in the group that her words about her

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Memories of Combat

What does Memorial Day mean to you? I have never served in the armed forces or participated in a war, but as a student of

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