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Wendy Ellison

Wendy Ellison is a free-lance writer and a semi-retired writing teacher. In her latter capacity, she has specialized in expository prose, particularly the personal essay and the memoir. She is the author of Ronnie Wood’s Smile (and where it led) in which she chronicles her own descent into near madness as a fan of the Rolling Stones.
Environment

What Would You Trade?

I began to ask myself, just as an individual “thought experiment,”  what would I be willing to give up in order NOT to experience another heat dome? 
Sports

Ode to America’s Fastest Growing Sport

All the cool kids are playing it. All the uncool kids are playing it, but mostly seniors are playing it. Seventy-five percent of regular players, or “core participants,” are 55 years or older.
Politics

Thanks to Andrew Johnson, There’s Another way to Bar Trump from Future Office

Because Lincoln was a Republican and Johnson a Democrat, they formed a new party, called the National Union Party. (You can thereby reject the Republican party’s cherished epithet “The Party of Lincoln.”)
Politics

Madison On Your Side: The Historical Case for Majority Rule

If you are like me, you grew up amongst people who, when discussing some minor choice like what TV show to watch, would often fall back on the phrase, “Majority rules!” and smugly grab the remote. I heard it a lot, in many different contexts, as I’m sure you did too. Now I ask you, did anyone ever yell out: “Plurality rules!”?
Education

The Audacity of Hope… in a Thousand College Admission Essays

A student’s first instinct seems always to be to philosophize in a boring, pedantic way about how he or she would make a Real Difference in the World; my job was beat that out of them. I’d give my standard advice: please don’t pontificate or philosophize—it puts your tired, put-upon readers right to sleep.
Cities

Lazaro – The Protests Were For Him Too

Lazaro was six miles from the unrest. I wish he had been there, for the protests were for him too. His seventy-nine-year-old black life still mattered.

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