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I’m not sure I can really explain how much “The Handmaid’s Tale” means to me. (To clarify: I mean the book. Always the book.) I certainly wasn’t able to…
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I believe in libraries.I was born in Colombia, a country where books were luxury items, public libraries were few and bookworms were considered arrogant.…
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This essay originally aired on December 7, 2017. On a crisp day in October, I was on my daily walk through the Arboretum at Penn State. I had discovered…
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This essay originally aired on April 12, 2018. A picture is worth a thousand words, and it also captures a lifetime of history. One single photograph can…
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This essay originally aired on Feb. 1, 2018. I believe in the small joy of washing with carrot-ginger soap.I believe in baking five-grain rye bread with…
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I believe in making things by hand.I’m a glassblower. I trained as a scientific glassblower, and I made laboratory glassware for 30 years. Now I make…
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I believe in the need for moderate activism to create a safer America.I am a mom, a veteran, a nurse, a hunter’s wife, a Second Amendment supporter and a…
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I believe in dancing like nobody’s watching.I began performing when I was three or four years old. My dance season began in late August and finished…
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I believe in owning a terrible first car.Growing up, I was someone who eagerly awaited my sixteenth birthday, counting down the days until I could finally…
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Normally, I have a lot of anxiety about talking on the phone. I get scared that I won’t be able to hear the person on the other end, or that I won’t know…