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Grammar for a Full Life Book Club: On Becoming Less Possessive

By Charity Singleton Craig 6 Comments

Barbary macaque - possessive grammar

Are your possessive pronouns making you hold onto things a little too tightly? Charity Singleton Craig says loosen your grip, in the final installment of Grammar for a Full Life book club.

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Grammar for a Full Life Book Club: Chilling Out on the Grammar Rules

By Charity Singleton Craig 4 Comments

brown squirrel with ears up - chill out grammar rules

In this week’s book club discussion of Grammar for a Full Life, Charity Singleton Craig helps parse when the grammar rules matter, and when we can chill out.

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Grammar for a Full Life Book Club: A Passive Voice

By Charity Singleton Craig 16 Comments

Mastiff puppy hangdog face

Charity Singleton Craig kicks off our latest book club with a discussion of the ways that passive voice can take away agency and responsibility.

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Book Club Announcement: Grammar for a Full Life

By Charity Singleton Craig 1 Comment

Ducklings at water edge

Join Charity Singleton Craig in our next book club, Grammar for a Full Life, and explore the ways language, and grammar in particular, can enrich our experiences and well-being.

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The Great Gatsby Book Club: Chapters 7-9—Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past

By Tania Runyan 2 Comments

old green motor boat on shore

In the final installment of our The Great Gatsby book club, Tania Runyan explores what it means to be “borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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Book Club: The Great Gatsby Chapter 3 & 4—Mystery, Contradiction and Switch-Ups

By Tania Runyan 2 Comments

Vintage room with woman at window

Chapters 3 and 4 of The Great Gatsby are full of mystery, contradictions and linguistic switch-ups as the books themes begin to take shape.

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Book Club: Meet the Great Gatsby Characters—Couches Included!

By Tania Runyan 10 Comments

Gatsby Mansion Long Island

In the first installment of our book club, Tania Runyan introduces The Great Gatsby characters—human and otherwise—and invites readers to a Gatsby sestina.

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National Poetry Month: Giving Gatsby the Green Light

By Tania Runyan 20 Comments

Gatsby Kindle on Table

This National Poetry Month, join Tania Runyan to take a poetic twist on Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in our in our new book club.

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 08—Zinfandel

By Laurie Klein 10 Comments

The Dunes Golf Course trees on rolling green hills

Laurie Klein concludes her “Heart & Soil” Poems to Listen By podcast series with Jane Mead’s “Where the Zinfandel Pass Their Seasons in Mute Rows.”

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 07—Sparrows

By Laurie Klein 3 Comments

small bird with red feathers for sparrows poem

The latest episode of Laurie Klein’s Poems to Listen By—Heart & Soil features the poem “Sparrows” by Jamie Morewood Anderson.

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 06—Undertow

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

Fresh snowfall at a pier

In this month’s Poems to Listen By episode, Laurie Klein features poems by Richard Maxson and Anne M. Doe Overstreet in a reflection on uncertainty.

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The Reindeer Chronicles Book Club: You’re Cutting a Tree in Almería and Getting a Storm in Dusseldorf

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Windsurfer on choppy sea for Reindeer Chronicles book club

In this final discussion of The Reindeer Chronicles book club, we consider the interconnectedness of land use and the water system, also known as the rain in Spain.

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The Reindeer Chronicles Book Club: We Can Never Approach the Wisdom of These Animals

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Snowy scene

In this week’s discussion of The Reindeer Chronicles, we consider the wisdom of the animals themselves in engineering an ecosystem.

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The Reindeer Chronicles Book Club: That Which Has Been Damaged Can Be Healed

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Rolling green hills with winding road for Reindeer Chronicles book club

In the first installment of our Reindeer Chronicles, we explore the amazing regeneration of China’s Loess Plateau after centuries of degradation.

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The 7 Principles of Making Friendship Work-Part III: Love and a Little GPS

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

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‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Book Club: none but Love

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

Charles Wallace

Who wins? None but Love. Joins us for the last installment of our book club about Madeleine L’Engle’s classic, ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’

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‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Book Club: the heart within me knows

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

Madeleine L'Engle

In the second installment of our book club about Madeleine L’Engle’s classic, ‘A Wrinkle in Time,’ we ask how the heart knows what is true.

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‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Book Club: every listless star

By Megan Willome 8 Comments

Madeleine L'Engle

Meg Murry is Every Girl, every listless star. Join us for a three-part book club about Madeleine L’Engle’s classic, ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 04—Honan Duststorm

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

Bicycle and dust

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The 7 Principles Series—Part II, How to Ruin a Relationship in 4 Easy Conflict Moves

By L.L. Barkat 4 Comments

Magnolia

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