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Posts published in May 2024

A motherlode of wonderful women

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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– There are fifteen women from the past two centuries—a mother, two grandmothers, four great grands, and eight great/great grands—who by law and blood I can call…

Monks on eBay

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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My boyhood home away from home was an old Trappist monastery in Northern Utah which closed in 2017. The Huntsville abbey lives on in many interesting…

On the Teaching of History

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By Gary Topping– The writer Wallace Stegner founded a famous creative writing program at Stanford University.  Some of its alumni were illustrious: Larry McMurtry, Edward Abbey, Tom McGuane and Ken…