(excerpt) I’d like to take you back to yesteryear, when I was a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Arizona. I had come late to a career in education and at the age of 33 had already published four books and worked as a magazine editor. I was complaining about the terrible compositions my […]
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By Mark Sconce John F. Kenney’s entreaty, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country,” inspired a generation of young idealists determined to represent America abroad through volunteer service. One of these was the author, Mark Sconce, who joined the Peace Corps, the world service
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Dear Victoria, I truly enjoyed the November issue of Ojo del Lago. Among my favorites was Herbert Piekow’s rendition of the Nellie Bly story. It was popular history at its finest. Well written, compelling, with a fascinating flow of little known facts smoothly integrated in a seamless narrative. Herbert is one of my favorite authors in your pantheon. I
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He started off the morning with a double fault. He knew it was an omen. His shoulder was stiff, his posture awkward. He could detect a grin on the face of his opponent. Contempt? Superiority? Pity? Confidence that the match was already over before it had begun? Something. Annoyed, he served to the other side
