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Stella Fosse

None Dare Call it Normal

None Dare Call it Normal The email landed in my box with a nearly audible thud. Dear Stella, It’s time for your online follow-up visit to the Brain Health Registry! Just like your first visit, you’ll be asked to update

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Anne Riley

DNA and Democracy

DNA and Democracy I have just published my new book: DINA: Nature’s Case For Democracy. In it, I describe how democracy preceded humans by about two billion years. Of course, we don’t call it democracy in nature. We call the

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Stella Fosse

A Quilt is More than Fragments

A Quilt is More than Fragments By age 92 my mother was no longer independent, though she lived in the house my parents had bought sixty years before. My brother and I were far away, and Mom depended on the

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Vicki DeArmon

Small-Press Publishing in 2024

Small-Press Publishing in 2024 Flashback to 1988 in San Francisco when I was the publisher of Foghorn Press, a start-up with no capital. We had big dreams—dreams that actually manifested in high sales. Each year, we shipped 40,000 copies of

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Stella Fosse

What to Expect When You are Seventy

What to Expect When You Are Seventy Having been in my seventies for all of six months, I am only marginally qualified to write about this decade. But never having been reticent about sharing an opinion, whether informed or not,

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