Claire Corkins
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Ways of Seeing: Many refugees not from Ukraine
People are talking about the crisis in Ukraine in drastically different terms than they would if it was taking place in a poor black country.
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Ways of Seeing: Global citizenship has benefits
After a year’s hiatus due to COVID, our family resumed our annual family trip this past January.
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Ways of seeing: Polio generation trusted the vaccine
My father recalled a day during elementary school when all the kids from the school were taken down to the Town Hall, and everyone was given a polio…
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Ways of seeing: Student discipline has been in flux
When my daughter started at Bristol Elementary I realized things have changed a lot since I went to school there.
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Ways of seeing: Will inventions stand the test of time?
I sometimes have a lot of time to think while I’m at work. When you spend seven or eight hours scraping paint, your mind is free to wander,…
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Ways of seeing: Croquet offers new diversion
This past year I got a croquet set for Christmas. I know, I know, croquet? The name conjures up images of British aristocrats playing on manicured lawns and…
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Ways of Seeing: Freedom has many definitions
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the…
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Ways of Seeing: Coming home during a pandemic
I spent the month of January travelling with my family in Asia. We visited Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Just before our return we heard about a…
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Ways of Seeing: Just give the facts, boring and dry
I like to be informed about what is happening, both locally and around the world, but I’ve been finding it harder and harder to watch the news over…