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This is another piece I wrote for my current internship with the Smithy Center for the Arts. Walking into Susan Jones Kenyon’s house is the closest you can get to entering the artist’s mind. As soon as you set foot through the side door, you’re surrounded by Susan’s art: paintings of Otsego Lake and Kingfisher Tower, portraits
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Today, I got my first ever rejection letter. I’d forgotten that I’d ever sent a query. The piece I queried? Lessons from the Drive-Thru, a personal feature I wrote for my Magazine and Feature Writing class last fall. Family Fun wasn’t interested, but in case you are, here’s the piece: Lessons from the Drive-Thru “You
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“I want to understand why you don’t swear.” This question came from my co-worker Austin, after a long discussion on whether or not swearing was worth it and whether or not I would ever do it. [Picture the following happening in a small hometown deli. If you ever wonder what grocery store employees talk about
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Yesterday was summer done right. Pushing 80 degrees — hot (for upstate New York). Humid — all the joints were greased with sweat. Sunny — only fluffy white clouds in sight. Sundays aren’t often my favorite day of the week, but yesterday was an exception from beginning to end. Here’s why. The sermon was on
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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to interview Dan Murdock of Cooperstown CrossFit for my intern project with the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce. I’ve been learning about CrossFit since last fall, but yesterday was my first time stepping into an actual CrossFit box (that’s what they call their gym). What I took from the interview spanned the range of life lessons
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The following is a piece I wrote for the Smithy Center for the Arts as part of my internship with them this summer. Jane Carr, 74, has considered herself an artist since she was eight years old, when her parents started sending her to the Baltimore Museum of Art for classes. “Every Saturday of my life
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Look at people as people, not prospects. Those were my words of wisdom to my brother, whose high school graduation we celebrated yesterday. It was a good graduation party — the most successful we’ve ever hosted — starting off with talk and food, and eventually segueing into a barefoot game of soccer at the park
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Do you ever feel tied down by fear? That your fears, however serious or illogical, have you shackled to the ground? Do you ever fear that your fears aren’t so much yours as you are theirs? I do. Every other hour of every passing day. I don’t remember when I first noticed how fearful I
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