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All posts filed in Things We Found

Where we tell you about things we found that make life a little brighter.

Ultimate Betrayal

by Jacqueline on October 21, 2008

Trying to remember, I have learned,
is like trying to clutch a handful of fog.
Trying to forget,
like trying to hold back the monsoon.
–Patricia McCormick

In Sold, a National Book Award Finalist, McCormick  tells a prose narrative (although it reads like verse) through the eyes of a Nepalese girl who was sold into sex slavery.  The harrowing tale […]

Well aware

by Jacqueline on October 19, 2008


Wonder

by Jacqueline on July 21, 2008


Surprise

by Jacqueline on July 17, 2008


Does the Notebook You Write in Affect What You Write?

by Lindsey Charlton on June 17, 2008


Plotting a Solution

by Lindsey Charlton on June 1, 2008


Poetic Archives

by Jacqueline on May 30, 2008


I found an author’s blog

by Jacqueline on May 16, 2008


The World’s First Flying Man

by Edward Atkinson on May 15, 2008


Collection of shipwreck photos

by Edward Atkinson on May 14, 2008


Sometimes the truth is
Not what you want it to be.
Is it ever what you expected?
No, probably not.
Are you okay with that?
Are we meant to create truth or
Are we meant to find it?

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