Diane Glancy is an emerita professor of English at Macalester College and is currently a professor at Azusa Pacific University in California. Her new book Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education is now available. Fort Marion Prisoners and … Continue reading From the desk of Diane Glancy
When “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the official U.S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in September 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a … Continue reading George Takei on Solider of Change
Erica Corwin is the Electronic Marketing Coordinator at UNP. I wanted to pass along great pictures as a follow up to my Hanging Basket Grow Kit post but unfortunately the seeds barely sprouted and the squirrels helped themselves to the growing … Continue reading People Make Publishing: Recipes from the Good Ol’ Days
LLyn De Danaan is a writer and an anthropologist. She contributed to the book Vashon Island Archaeology: A View from Burton Acres Shell Midden, and her articles have appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, and Oregon … Continue reading From the desk of LLyn De Danaan: The Tale behind Katie Gale
Pamela Carter Joern’s debut novel, The Floor of the Sky (Nebraska, 2006), was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and winner of the Alex Award and the Nebraska Book Award. She is also the author of The Plain … Continue reading From the desk of Pamela Carter Joern: Gathering the Short Stories of In Reach
When I was a kid, my mom regularly packed a pb&j on white bread sandwich—or perhaps a slice of processed cheese, also on white bread—in my lunch box. Kids were able to buy a pint of milk, maybe a bag … Continue reading The Director Dish
Jackson Michael is a member of the Football Writers Association of America and the Maxwell Football Club. He is a freelance writer and journalist. His book, The Game Before the Money:Voices of the Men Who Built the NFL, is now available. … Continue reading From the desk of Jackson Michael
Melissa Schneider, LMSW, is a licensed relationship counselor and the author of The Ugly Wife is a Treasure at Home: True Stores of Love and Marriage in Communist China (Potomac Books, 2014), a collection of stories including the two … Continue reading From the desk of Melissa Schneider: China’s Mid-Autumn Festival – Let The Wife Races Begin
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copyright Michael Lowery On September 13 and 14 Americans will commemorate the bicentennial of the Battle of Baltimore, a mostly forgotten battle in U.S. history… except that it gave the United States its national anthem. The song is… Continue reading O, say can you see? Stories of a national anthem
Originally posted on Gregg's Baseball Bookcase:
I often wonder like any other fan, what some umpires are thinking. It seems that they almost want to show up the players at times by making themselves not only part of the… Continue reading Called Out But Safe – A Baseball Umpire’s Journey
