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“Dreams” and Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, by Carl Van Vechten Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow....
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Hating Stephen King
Hate is a strong word — one I choose not to use often. But when it comes to someone who murders characters you’ve come to care about, to identify with … to love … in unsavory ways, hatred isn’t such...
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Brave HEART Program Brings Horse Therapy to Hagerstown
Soldiers returning home to Washington County, Maryland with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) are finding hope and healing in the last place they might ever think...
View ArticleHow Not to Write Dialogue
Every writer has his own demons to wrestle. George Orwell once called writing a “horrible, exhausting struggle” and likened it to “a long bout of some painful illness.” Novelist John Updike struggled...
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Young Adult Fiction: Like Revisiting Old Friends
One of the innumerable joys of parenthood is having that excuse to revisit those things that enchanted you in your distant past. Take young adult fiction. You can’t legally read this genre as an adult...
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Freelance Rates Database: What the Big Publications Pay
Make what the big publications pay with the Freelance Rates Database. If someone else can sell your article for $4 per word, you can do it too. Contently publishes a Freelance Rates Database for...
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Cats of Hagerstown Befriends Local Felines
Cats of Hagerstown seeks to fund feline rescue. Confession time. I really, really wanted that interview with Ann Mahoney — Olivia on AMC’s The Walking Dead. It came up for grabs last month when the new...
View ArticleVolunteers Needed in Orlando
Live in Orlando? We need your help this Saturday: https://t.co/qT00JPvS3o#RA4Orlando #OrlandoUnited #OrlandoStrong pic.twitter.com/a2owNul6ml — Random Acts (@RandomActsOrg) June 15, 2016 The post...
View ArticleNo Father’s Day for Raif Badawi
Canadians celebrate Father’s Day too, but the family of Raif Badawi? Probably not. This month marks the four-year anniversary of the young blogger’s arrest in Saudi Arabia. I first learned about Raif’s...
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CNN’s Libertarian Town Hall Shines Light on Third Party Possibilities
The fine art of the reblog CNN’s Libertarian Town Hall Shines Light on Third Party Possibilities The post CNN’s Libertarian Town Hall Shines Light on Third Party Possibilities appeared first on An...
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