We don’t get do-overs in this world. We get one time to act, to speak, to make a choice. If we get it right, we look back on that memory and…
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Sarah Maples
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For more than a decade, the US military (and its allies) went, to use a military term, “balls to the wall” in a two-front war. The result was an op tempo…
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There are days when my fingers itch with the need to be creative. Writing, painting, photographing, baking, or making a scrapbook for my niece or nephew – it doesn’t matter so…
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Poetic but pickled. Those were the words that kept coming to mind as I read the bestselling novel The Yellow Birds by Iraq veteran Kevin Powers. Awarded the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award…