Tag: gun control
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What story does our budget tell?
I am taking a creative writing class where we are learning how to discover and tell stories. Last week, our professor passed out an excerpt from The Art of Creative Research where Philip Gerard encourages essayists to examine even the most mundane document, like a budget, for the story it tells. He writes: As an…
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How to Be: Thoughts about Guns and the Value of Life
I made a mistake yesterday. While waiting to catch my flight home from a board meeting, I joined a debate about gun control on a friend’s Facebook thread. I don’t typically participate in such debates via social media. Our emboldened rhetoric behind the anonymity of the computer screen is, I believe, problematic. But I was…
Teri McDowell Ott 