Archive for: essay
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Beware the Bucket List
By Ruth Pennebaker
Forget “25 Places to See Before You Die.” The real rewards of travel cannot be Instagrammed. I am at a cocktail party. I may also be losing my mind. One woman,...
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Store Owners’ Daughter
By Mary K. Moore
I grew up behind a counter. In 1978, when I was 5 years old, my mother and stepfather, Kay and Charles Oates, bought a tiny, rundown gas station on the outskirts...
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Love, Coco
By Ruth Pennebaker
I want my baby granddaughter to know me—but she’s 2,000 miles away and life is uncertain. So I’m writing her letters I hope she’ll read someday. First,...
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Sanctuary
By Emily Rapp
Finding home and happiness where I least expected “Do you need help?” Kent called. I stood in the basement of our home—St. Anne’s Catholic Church, built...
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Letter From the Executive Director: Film School
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An Iconic Mural Near Campus Just Got a Well-Deserved Update
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Robots Are Roaming the Forty Acres in a New Research Program
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This Blanton Museum Exhibit Examines the Long Afterlife of the Medieval Aesthetic
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A UT English Course Reveals Memories of Alfred Hitchcock’s Works Across Generations