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Sandra C. Anderson, Ph.D., Emerita Professor at Portland State University, describes " codependency" as a pattern of painful dependence on compulsive behaviors and on approval from others in an attemp
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For the artist drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase, it is quite literally true. It is the actual act of drawing that forces the artist to look at the object in front of him, to d
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I have been writing for about 80 years. First letters then poems and speeches, later stories and articles and books, now notes. The activity of writing has been a vital one for me; it helps me to make
This essay is adapted from a chapter of “ A Place in the Country ,” a collection of essays by W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), translated from the German by Jo Catling, which comes out next week from Random
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Several days after my visit, in the vacant lobby of a Marriott Suites in Alpharetta, a suburb north of Atlanta, Jones remembered her childhood in Augusta—or more accurately in “Georgia-Lina,” as James
HOW STRANGE to return to Kafka. It takes just a few pages for all our preconceptions about literature to become unmoored. The old tools — character, plot, style — are useless to us; those solemn tomes
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T he connection between writing and dancing has been much on my mind recently: it’s a channel I want to keep open. It feels a little neglected – compared to, say, the relationship between music and pr
The word Victorian tends to evoke old-fashioned ideas: women confined in corsets, strict gender roles, and a prudishness about all things sexual. In a world where conspicuous consumerism and self-expr
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Image by Nikki Casey By Laura Albert October 10, 2016 What shocks me is not that someone was able to rip away the veil of privacy from the Italian writer known to the world as Elena Ferrante; nor am I
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To spice up our monster essay on icons, we created an icon monster shooter arcade game. Planned as a one week hackathon, it turned into an amazing one year adventure. Here is what UX designers learned
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