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Visuals from "Wood" in "The Life of a Showgirl" by Taylor Swift
October 5, 2025October 6, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

The life of a showgirl at a crossroads

Official The Remainders Release Ad
October 2, 2023October 1, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Featured book: The Remainders

Andrew Jackson
May 1, 2017January 27, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Tell me your heroes, and you tell me who you are

Stars of our high school production of Dames at Sea.
May 1, 2017August 12, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Dames at Sea: The heartbreak behind camp

Reseda High School Vocal Ensemble 1976-1977
April 27, 2017August 12, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Lessons from Musicals: Overture

From my Eagle Scout invitation
April 14, 2017March 31, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

What I learned from earning Eagle Scout

April 11, 2017April 11, 2017 Matthew Arnold Stern

Down the rabbit hole

Sometimes, the only answer is no. Image from Pixabay.com
March 26, 2017April 22, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

How to deal with rejection

March 19, 2017April 23, 2019 Matthew Arnold Stern

Writing with a Kindle

Saddleback Little League Opening Day, 2009
March 8, 2017January 25, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Why community service is now more important than ever

Trench warfare in World War I from Wikimedia Commons
March 1, 2017January 12, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Wars of attrition

WGA pamphlet from the mid-1990s
February 21, 2017May 20, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Why you need bad writing to get to good writing

By Paolo Uccello - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=159874
February 15, 2017May 30, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

Slaying the dragon

Motto at Northwest Missouri State University
February 7, 2017March 31, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

How to tell the truth

February 2, 2017 Matthew Arnold Stern

Back to our regularly scheduled programming?

Example of censorship
January 28, 2017May 28, 2020 Matthew Arnold Stern

What self-censorship feels like

American flag
January 22, 2017June 17, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

If you change your mind

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