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The Power of Art to Change Your Heart

“You weren’t there.”  Agnes Shakespeare’s grief coalesces into those words directed at her husband Will. Despite Agnes’s ministrations and skill in herb lore, she could not save their eleven-year-old son Hamnet from the plague.  William was working as an actor and a playwright in London when he got word that his daughter, Judith, Hamnet’s twin, […]

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The Loneliness of Childhood

“You! Go up front,” barked the teacher as she pointed with her chin for me to join the half-dozen children milling at the front of the cramped classroom. I shuffled from my seat toward the group. We were the kids who had failed the fingernail inspection. As we faced the class, the seated students broke […]