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Generations: When A Scream is More Than A Scream

December 15, 2025

The generation above mine worked long and earnestly for years to overcome gender stereotypes. Through effort and perseverance, keen leadership and insistence, the idea that all women had to be tiny-waisted, home-tidying, husband-seeking and spider-fearing was tossed into a historical fire. It…

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Garden Gems: Mayapples, Bumblebees, and Box Turtles

June 9, 2024

Mayapples, Podophyllum peltatum, are an interesting native woodland plant. Their wide (around one foot) deeply lobed leaves are carried singly or in pairs on 12 to 15-inch stems; a group of them resembles an encampment of green umbrellas, rather like an illustration…

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Generations: The Present Can Be All We Have

June 4, 2024

One of the sorrows of age is growing old enough to have lost touch with others. One of the pleasures is being young enough to find them again. During the pandemic, when we all individualized our forms of escape, I began writing…

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Generations: Generation X Choose Your Midlife Crisis Wisely

May 25, 2024

There was a time when the phrase “midlife crisis” may have conjured images of expensive sports cars, scandalous affairs, or perhaps simply a dedicated commitment to couch potatoism. Those tropes have changed with Generation X as we move solidly into middle age.…

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Generations: Circling the Rotary of Life

May 13, 2024

I’m in the passenger seat of our Volkswagen, trying not to scream. Not that anyone would hear me in this Waverly Oaks office park, abandoned on a Saturday afternoon. I take a few deep breaths, triple-check my seatbelt, and say in what…

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