Mothers, Daughters, and Dolls
Came home from school Thursday about 7:30 absolutely exhausted but committed to writing a paper. Although I had planned to go to Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro that night, I forgot to get tickets before it…
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Street Symphony
“I saw Cory yesterday,” Mom tells me when I meet her downtown for lunch. She used to play her harmonica outside Crossroads Mall, before she moved to the ZCMI Center. She doesn’t play her harmonica…
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The Path of the Wanderer: Autobiographical Theory and the Personal Essay
In his novella, A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean describes a conversation with his father, who knows of Norman’s desire to write. “You like to tell true stories, don’t you?” the father asks. “Yes,”…
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