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Tuesday 18th June 2013

Featured #TellHisStory Writer: Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Featured #TellHisStory Writer: Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Copycat Susan Patron, Newbery Award-winning author of The Higher Power of Lucky, once said the best piece of writing advice she’d ever received was to choose a book she loved and write it. “The book I wished I’d written,” she said, “was Sarah, Plain and Tall, so I got out my copy and started ...

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Monday 17th June 2013

When You Want to Throw in the Towel

When You Want to Throw in the Towel

It’s all looked a little impossible lately. It’s not just the lists and the stacks and the deadlines, though there are plenty of those. There’s more: people we love hurt. We hurt, heart-deep. Friends are staring down mean diagnoses and long roads and uncertain tomorrows. Lydia ...

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Friday 14th June 2013

When You Feel Like You Don’t Fit

When You Feel Like You Don’t Fit

It’s so easy for me to think of a hundred ways why someone could do this better. That’s what I was thinking when a woman was trying to fit the microphone headset over my ear. It wasn’t fitting right. And the audience was waiting as we fiddled with that contraption. “It ...

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