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Celebrate 250
The 4th of July is always a special time of year, a moment to hold the Declaration of Independence in our hearts like we hold the Baby Jesus at Christmas time. Yet just as the Nativity scene is oft overshadowed by bows and wrapping paper, so too is “the separate and equal station to which…
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See You Tomorrow
“See you tomorrow.”, on October 30th 2012 those became the last words I would ever say to my grandfather.
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“Once a Redskin, Always a Redskin”
So states the motto heard at every pep assembly, football game, graduation ceremony, and alumni event at North High. Since 1929, North High has been home of the Redskins. 92 years later, that tradition comes to an end as the Board of Education unanimously voted to drop the Redskin mascot in lieu of a new,…
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The Year of Books
Take a look at the books I read this year and my thoughts. Which should you read and which should you skip?
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Immovable Object
In a political administration where the President’s word is more often devoid of honor and truth than sustained by it, Ginsburg stands out as an abstemious legate of the ideals that America was founded on. Truth, Justice, and the American Way
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On Gardening
I have written, unwritten, and rewritten this post nearly a dozen times. I was trying to put into my own words how I feel about everything that has happened in the last week- George Floyd, The Minneapolis Riots, and dozens of similar riots and protests going on around the country. I realized after draft #6…
Collin Willis 