Monthly Archives: January 2010

A Case of the Human Condition: Build a Wind Farm — Wreck Lake Michigan

I saw the map and burst into tears. It broke my heart. Windmills, a hundred square miles of them, are being proposed for Lake Michigan – a couple miles off shore. In the lake. Beautiful, serene, life-giving Lake Michigan.

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Book Openers: Haiti’s History — and the American Civil War

A timely offering from the University of Pennsylvania Press: Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution, by Matthew J. Clavin, University of Pennsylvania Press, 248 pages,  illus. , cloth, 2009, $39.95.

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The Writing Room: Carol Edgarian’s Letter to a Young Writer

Whether you’re a brand-new writer or writer of many years, be sure to check out Carol Edgarian’s letter to a young college graduate who wants to write but doesn’t know where to start.

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The Writing Room: Different From, Different Than – Which Is It?

I was at the gym working on my pecs and abdominals the other day when I spotted a flyer announcing, “Belly fat is different than other fat.” Should that be different from? What’s the correct English usage here anyway? I hadn’t a clue.

Different than?

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A Case of the Human Condition: Geographic Mobility in America — Watching My Kids Disappear

Most of my grandmother’s children – there were seven of them – lived out their lives within walking distance of their mother’s white frame house in Scottville, Michigan. Not my father. He moved away.

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