Essays by Karen Anderson
For 30 years, writer Karen Anderson was a columnist for the Traverse City Record-Eagle. She's contributed weekly essays to Interlochen Public Radio since 2005. Listen for her on Fridays during Morning Edition at 6:32 and 8:32 a.m. Her essays are archived here.
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Dozens of ants coming and going, over and around the clothes pins. Why, I wonder, and even more, how? -
“There are two kinds of chances,” he said, leaning over the podium. “Those that come more than once and those that will never come again."
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It’s almost too warm to jog but I lace up my shoes anyway. There’s no traffic this morning because it’s Sunday and the streets are quiet. The only cars are on their way to church or to the convenience store for coffee and a paper.
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Reading the classic Mark Twain novel again sparks some reflection on how we use language today.
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The mist, the fight over a reservation and the realization that a relationship had run its course.
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