The year was 2000. The month, can’t remember. The location was the campus post office of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville …

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A week ago I was privileged to welcome back my father after what seemed like a Guinness-book-of-record vacation. Or how …

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Antennae broken grasshopper A few years ago I embarked on a journey with a colleague to a small village in …

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