From Our Readers: Listen up, lady writers, let a man explain
Listen up, lady writers, let a man explain Editor’s Note: This comment appeared online at www.valleyadvocate.com under the article “Stories From All Directions: Tackling the gender gap in publishing.” Where women miss out [in getting their writing published] is in...From Our Readers: June 25- July 1, 2015: The ‘S’ word, and baseball in Springfield
The S-word Bernie Sanders’ presidential candidacy has brought the “s-word”— socialism — back into the American political vocabulary. But what does it actually mean? Dictionary definitions are useless. Tea partiers call President Obama a socialist. The third letter in...
Posted: Comments on the Valley Advocate’s Facebook page
This week instead of letters, the Advocate is featuring Facebook comments recently posted on our page. You all are poignant and hilarious; keep commenting and sharing. Everyone else, like us on Facebook and join the discussion. Sometimes protesting is a lonely job....
My Favorite Walk: Forest, barren, beautiful, life after The Tornado
My favorite walk is around my backyard. Although this may seem rather common, my yard is still new to me and very much an evolving space. Four years ago my backyard was a dense forest filled with pines, oaks, and poison ivy. The thick trees were covered with poison...E-Edition
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