I had never traveled anywhere alone. I know that riding a bus from Macon to Atlanta, Georgia, with strangers was not long-distance, but it was frightening an...
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I hated it when...
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Read More“The time will come when we will be people again and not just Jews!” – 11 April 1944.
More than one million children under the age o...
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Read More“Blogging is so much more than writing,” the woman told me when I introduced myself as a writer at the Mediavine conference I recently attended. ...
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