Tag: Wonder
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When Books Come Alive: A Visit to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
I’ve been thinking a lot about the ways in which fiction and real life become intertwined – especially fiction that finds us when we need it most. I can’t think of a place where fiction and life are closer than the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I grew up as part of what I like…
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Wonder: The Intersection of Truth & Fiction
There’s this magical place that exists, nestled between the world of fact and lie. It’s a place called fiction. It’s a place where I like to spend a lot of my time. Fiction can look like a lot of things. It can be wizards and knights, analogies wrapped up into quests. It can be a…
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An Un-Celebrated Christmas
I never got into the Christmas spirit this year. It’s Christmas Eve, and I still have not. We didn’t put up a tree. We didn’t take out a single decoration. I didn’t write a Christmas card to anyone, at all. There are a lot of reasonable reasons for these things: we moved, we’ve been busy, and…