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Stephanie SalterRemembering a man who soared high and proud
By Stephanie Salter My friend Bob Cameron died this past week. Among the many things I learned from our friendship was to never again hear that someone really old has passed, then respond with a shallow, “Oh, well, sounds like he had a good, long run. I guess it was time.” Some people are simply incapable of getting old enough to make their departure an oh-well. Bob was one of those people.
Celebration time — come on!
By Stephanie Salter As best I can remember, I have never dreaded a single birthday — and never really understood the popular inclination to do so. What is so awful about marking the completion of another unique year on this planet? Whenever I hear someone moan about a birthday coming, or worse, insist ignoring a birthday is the only way to “celebrate,” I want to ask, “May I get someone to put you out of your misery, then?”
A routine spill changes the lives of a boy and his mother
By Stephanie Salter Among the truths Joan Ryan shares in her book, “The Water Giver,” is this: “You don’t need to go to a monastery in Tibet to learn about living in the moment. Just spend a month in an ICU.” Ryan’s book is subtitled, “The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance.” It details an unlikely and beautiful purification born of the kind of accident every parent fears.
The back story of a neighbor who loved to sit in the sun
By Stephanie Salter In the 10-plus years we spoke to one another over our tiny San Francisco back yards, all I really knew about Lenore was that she was an unfailingly cheerful, elderly woman who adored the sun and wore her long silver hair in a braid down her back. I did suspect from the way she moved her generous, ultra-feminine body (and from that counter-cultural long hair) that she’d been a bohemian in her day.
Boo! (Who? Me?) Yes, you. (But I’m grown up.) So what?
By Stephanie Salter Professor Glenn Sparks’ office at Purdue University is filled with collections of written accounts from people providing detailed descriptions of film, television or other visual media experiences they wish they had never encountered. Now in his 24th year at Purdue, Sparks is well-known for his work in the fright responses of young children to media, but the communications professor has amassed plenty of data over the years on grown-ups, too.
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