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HIS361 – Witchcraft and Heresy Final Essay One of the most interesting questions raised for me in this course is what makes witchcraft authentic. As a history student, my instinct is to look backward. Where did a tradition come from? How old is it? Can its claims about itself be supported by historical evidence? What…
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Man, I Feel Like a Woman Today. I’m in the Xennial generation—the microgeneration that saw streetlights signal dinnertime just as The Oregon Trail came into our computer vans. We have the strength and blase of our Gen X sisters and the emotional intelligence of the elder Millennials. We don’t complain. We know your weak spots.…
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I used to think I rejected God. But, looking back, it wasn’t God I was rejecting at all. I was rejecting an idea that I had made up in my head based on untruths I told myself out of loneliness. When I was a little girl and starting to make sense of the world, I…
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I wish someone had told me this when I was thirty. I would have been old enough to know there was necessary work to be respectable and elegant, the way I envisioned I would have been by that age. At thirty, I was someone I couldn’t recognize. I was surviving in ways that didn’t make…
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The family business of growing old.
The Spinster's Soliloquy 