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In the Beginning…

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A new word for ‘awesome.’ Please.

I have a narrow tolerance for words used too often. Yet recently I’ve found myself using ‘awesome’ and ‘amazing,’ primarily in response to postings on Facebook. You know a word is worn out when it’s used by people like me–those beyond the margins of the hip world, whether we’re old or young.  The coolest among us have already countered

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Laying a Myth to Rest

I’d like to put to rest the myth that everybody in a small town knows everybody else. It’s a nice idea, suggesting coziness and harmony, maybe why small-towners go along with it. We have to know it’s not realistic. Maybe we just like to fool big-city people. If you grow up in a small town, you think you

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