Rebekah Buchanan
Local Commentator-
When I was growing up my family spent a lot of time playing games. Board games, word games, travel games. We had games for every event and occasion.Some…
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April is National Poetry Month. When I talk with my students about poetry—writing poetry, teaching poetry—most of them shudder. They have an immense fear…
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I am a proud product of public schooling. I learned how to read in public schools. I was encouraged to explore the world around me, find books that I…
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When I graduated from college in 1994, Elie Wiesel gave our commencement speech. I was excited to listen to a man whose books I read and whose words and…
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A year ago my commentary was on The Force Awakens for a New Feminist Generation. After my annual holiday viewing of Rogue One with my son, I thought that…
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The other day I was observing a high school classroom. I listened as they discussed Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I love Alice. She…
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Politics bring out the best and the worst in people. Tuesday's election had been heated since the beginning. People on all sides are frustrated with what…
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I think that if I had to pick my first love it would be baseball. As a child, my walls were covered with pictures of ball players before they were covered…
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This weekend I did something I never thought I’d do—I returned to my hometown and went to my high school’s Homecoming football game. I graduated 26 years…
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Last weekend I went to Minnesota. We arrived late Thursday night and my sister told me I had to meet her at Rice Park in St. Paul after 10 p.m. to play…