Debra A. Copeland

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KILLING ANTS - 09/2013

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September is my favorite month. I've been listening to Billie Holliday, humming and singing along to Easy Living and Tain't Nobody's Bizness and God Bless the Child while cooking apples in the kitchen. The pleasure of sniffing cool, apple-crisp air while watching the hills slip into something a little more colorful is tempered, though...

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AFTER 2012 - 08/2013

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Are you feeling an inexplicable impulse? An urge you can't quite put into words? Feeling some curiosity about where to go from here? If so, you might be experiencing "vocational arousal," or a "suprasexual" desire to join your genius with the genius of others as you start on a journey toward not only your, but global highest potential...


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FOR TRAYVON - 07/2013

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Before the verdict in America's most recent famous trial, my plan had been to write about dogs this month. Now, though, I find myself pondering systems of law, journalism, and justice which, with apologies to canines everywhere, appear to be going to the dogs.


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JUNEBLOG II - 06/2013

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This month Stephen Buhner, modestly self-described "plant person," held what was reported to be (please, Stephen, say it ain’t so!) his last workshop. The workshop was entitled, “Gaia’s Mind: The Secret Teachings of Plants.” It was based on the contents of a book Buhner has coming out next year. Held in Virginia, at a 4-H camp on the banks of the clean, swift Mechums River, we convened in a log meeting house and slept in bunkhouses by the river, on slabs of thick oak, with daylight sneaking through the walls, as well as, I would learn, critters.


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THE NEW FEMINIST PARADIGM - 05/2013

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This month I have a question for you: Do you find feminism offensive? 


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