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Marie Laure
Dec 10, 20242 min read
"I'm Paying."
Said the dark-eyed, dark-skinned woman. I had stopped into the bakery on the fly to see if perchance a savoury pie or two might be...
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Marie Laure
Nov 4, 20241 min read
This Thursday, November 7: You are invited
to meet a Fourteenth century mystic, virtually speaking. Who was Julian? Julian of Norwich was a mystic and an author. She is the first...
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Marie Laure
Nov 1, 20243 min read
HOPE for the Possibilities.
Once Upon a Time . . . B.C., before Covid, before 9/11, There was an "American Dream"narrative many of us believed. That dream followed...
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Marie Laure
Oct 29, 20241 min read
National Quilt Museum, a Labyrinth, and an Indian Chief . . .
My writing residency at airstudiopaducah* is coming to an end. I fly home on Halloween, not on a broom! The National Museum in this...
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Marie Laure
Oct 15, 20241 min read
No Place like Paducah!
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Marie Laure
Mar 26, 20243 min read
The Great and Powerful SC
Dorothy was a young woman going before the power structure that controlled OZ in the way that the Supreme Court (SC) controls the US....
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Marie Laure
Mar 19, 20245 min read
"All the news that’s fit to print"
I read a story in the New York Times about a man in Ohio who was observing a news moratorium that included any and all news stories from...
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Marie Laure
Mar 12, 20243 min read
A Tale of Two Senators
Picture this: It is almost midnight on a Thursday night. A woman is seated in her spotless kitchen without a hair out of place wearing a...
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Marie Laure
Mar 5, 20243 min read
Build a Better Mousetrap?
That is one thing that a mouse would never do, according to Einstein when asked about the atomic bomb: Mankind invented the atomic bomb...
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Marie Laure
Feb 27, 20244 min read
“We didn’t say any thing.”
“He was a Nazi.” He had invited her to breakfast then talked openly about hating “these” people, and“those” people who are not like him...
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Marie Laure
Feb 20, 20244 min read
The Border Patrol officer asked:
“Are you both American citizens?” sticking his own Latino face into the car to get a look at mine.“Yes,” I said emphatically. We were not...
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Marie Laure
Feb 13, 20243 min read
Marshall-ing the Truth
Some people are like lightning rods. Electricity filled the lecture hall that day when I went “shopping” for an interesting course...
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Marie Laure
Jan 16, 20243 min read
Have you heard the not so Good News?
I heard yesterday that the reason some people would be voting in the upcoming Presidential election for a criminal on the run was that...
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Marie Laure
Jan 9, 20243 min read
Banned in Florida . . . Period!
I decided to begin a blog the day after the 11 p.m. signing of the Florida six-week abortion ban by Governor, Ron DeSantis, behind closed...
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Marie Laure
Jan 2, 20243 min read
2024: How will it end?
Years ago, fourteen to be exact, I was in the midst of writing a graduate thesis on pilgrimage. I undertook some solo pilgrimages to...
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Marie Laure
Nov 28, 20233 min read
Once Upon a Time . . .
B.C., before Covid, before 9/11, There was an "American Dream"narrative many believed. That dream followed Americans from childhood all...
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Marie Laure
Nov 14, 20231 min read
Raw Footage
For a few hours today, I searched reputable websites for political propaganda speeches given by a dictator called only by his last name:...
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