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68How to Capture a Tiny Saw-Whet Owl
"I was afraid he would fly away before I could get a picture," says photographer Linda Gast. Her husband had called her to come outside and bring her camera. "I knew it was an owl, but I didn't know what...
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73How to be a Good Dad Without Being Religious
I never knew anyone who was more patient or kind. I never knew anyone who was less jealous or conceited or proud. No one was less likely to be ill-mannered. No one was more generous, both materially and...
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51The Frogpond Classroom: Taking Control
Jeremiah wasn't a bullfrog, but how we might have wished he was at that moment. Though he was running around the room flashing all the other young students, HE wasn't the one out of control. We were the...
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75Finding Pinocchio in The Bible
Once there was a wise creator of beautiful things. He filled his world with wonders wrought by his own hand and saw that they were good, but one thing he lacked. If he only had a son to share his beautiful...
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66My (Very) Brief Show-Business Career
It was the Shirley Temple era, and mothers of cute little girls took them to singing and dancing and acting lessons.Agencies and studios for such activities had sprung up all over the place. I don't really...
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61How to Get Your Children's Book "Almost" Published
It was almost 30 years ago that the script of an alphabet book popped into my head-- almost all of it came to me over a period of a couple of days and I began scribbling down the verses and drawing up some...
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59"Damn! What's Your Problem?": The Defiant Child
In a particularly challenging fifth grade class with six or seven chronic discipline problems, I had fought the good fight most of the morning. With great effort I had managed to keep a semblance of order...
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811947 Hudson: I Fell Out of a Classic Car
We were going to pick up my sister, Bobbette, after her week of wilderness experience with the Camp Fire Girl troop. Uncle Andy and Aunt Vella rode up to Pasadena with us. My uncle was riding in the...
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53"Oh Say Can You Sub?"
Picking up the receiver by the dawn's early light, I muttered what was supposed to be "Hello?", but it ended up being pronounced more like "hrumm?" I was answered in a foreign language: "Hi,...
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64Name Games and Trading Places
In a sixth grade class of bright, attentive children of diverse personality and race, I mentally deliberated the credibility of a pale blonde girl with a name tag reading: "Maria Sanchez-Garcia". ...
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