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  • Setting the Scene: Where I Live

    This prompt challenged me to describe the community I live in, as if it were the setting for a book. I looked up from my book when I heard the pilot announcing the end of the flight. Welcome to Portland International Airport. Local time is 9:30 am. If you look out of your window to… Read more

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  • Mixed Blessings.

    This slide show is about an Accra, Ghana computer dumping ground where “gifts” from developing countries are stripped down for their metal content. Young people are being sent to forage for copper, brass, aluminum and zinc but they are being exposed to toxic amounts of lead, cadmium, antimony, PCBs 
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  • What's More Important

    This prompt asked which is more important – what a person does for a living or where they live. I think it is more important for someone to find a job they enjoy and appreciate because then he or she can do it just about anywhere (of course this does not include things like water… Read more

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  • The heat wave is coming to town

    Not the music group, but the actual heat. The heat always kicks up around Max’s birthday, just like it did the year he was born. I am truly thankful that I’m not waddling around at nine months being kicked from the inside like I was during that record heat. Read more

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