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WWI Slang and You
My Zumba teacher employed some World War I slang this morning as one of our dancers hurried out to work. “Good luck in the trenches!” The class all laughed, as did I, but my mind didn’t follow Becky out the door. Instead, it hunkered down at the word and I marveled at how events from 100 years ago still live in…
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Lion hunting in Europe: a Traveler’s Tale
Fancy that! Lion hunting in Europe–today!
Cultivating Thanks with Kelly James, the Leader of the Band
I learned something about thanks my second year of college and the lesson came from the band director Kelly James. Kelly, as we called him, had been the band director for many years by the time I arrived in his clarinet section, and since I wasn’t a brass player (the UCLA band is known as having a “solid gold sound”), I didn’t…
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World War I in 2015 Salzburg, Austria
We visited the Salzburg Museum in Spring 2015 to see a World War I exhibit. After spending two years researching and writing about World War I, I wanted to see something of the other side. I’d noticed a dearth of information about the war from the Austro-Hungarian/German side. When crawling through Pinterest looking for WWI photos, few of them were…
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Guilt: Is What I’m Feeling True or False?
How to tell if you’re feeling true or false guilt.
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