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Between Small Town and Hero
I live in the small town where Batman grew up. I teach at the small college that Batman attended, where he probably learned things like how even the most stellar camera tricks of the 1960s would make an audience have a hard time believing he and Robin were really walking up that skyscraper wall. The…
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Between Valedictorian and Validation
This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! At the risk of coming across as Braggy McSmartypants, I am going to tell you a little bit about being a valedictorian. Which I was. Or, rather, I say I was valedictorian of my 1990 high…
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Between Game of Thrones and Murder, She Wrote
This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! Death on TV is nothing new, but we all have our thresholds of seeing what it looks like. I made it to the second beheading in Game of Thrones* before I said to my husband…
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Between Now and Then
This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! Below is the Baccalaureate Address I gave at Whitman College. With advice for students, and perhaps for us all. It’s time for celebration! It’s time for family and friends! It’s time to fit in as…
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Between Spouse and House
This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! I have spent some of my free time in the last two months watching two shows regularly: “Married at First Sight” and “Love it or List it.” The first, an FYI-channel program based on a…
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Between Old Dog and New Life
This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! My childhood dog Cuddles died on my twelfth birthday. We drove 100 miles to bury her on my grandparents’ farm, because all dogs in my family were by definition considered farm dogs even if we…
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Between Star Wars and Star Trek
This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! I look fondly back on the “Star Trek the Next Generation”-themed murder mystery party in college when I played the civilian lounge hostess named Guinan. On the TV show Guinan was played by Whoopi Goldberg.…
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Between Dairy Queen and Dari King
This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! In my childhood hometown there is a Dairy Queen. And there is a Dari King. Both are wonderful burger and milkshake joints, and both are situated on the main highway in town just one stoplight…
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Between Soap and Seven Step Skin Care Systems
This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! Here’s what gets my undies in a bunch: 1. Rigorous and elaborate and expensive skin care for women, but 2. Soap and water for men. More out of laziness than as a gender politics statement,…
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Between Monty Python and Hello Kitty
This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! I have always looked up to my older brothers, and not just because they are taller than I am. But I do believe that as a little sister, my interests have taken turns either because…
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Michelle Janning, Ph.D. 