"I was very uncomfortable with death for most of my life," says Karen Reppen says she ran from death and dying for most of her life. But after she decided to face her fears head-on by getting a job in hospice, she started to see the moment of death as a source of wonder and joy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Eric Nuzum writes a ghost story in the form of a memoir about growing up in a house he believed to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress. She stalked him.
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self. But he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.
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Novelist Stephan Eirik Clark's Dangerous Idea? Subdivide the United States into smaller countries.
Karen Russell bookmarks "A High Wind in Jamaica," by Richard Hughes.
Birute Galdikas talks about her almost other-worldly experience of living with orangutans in Borneo.
Keli Carender is a Tea Party activist – in fact, she was the very first Tea Party activist.
David Bond got scared when he received a letter from the government saying they'd lost his newborn daughter's data. He decided to see if he could disappear himself.
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