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Jennifer L. Holberg

By Wintery Light

Maybe it’s this long winter intersecting with Lent.  Maybe it’s just the personal season I’m in.  Or maybe it’s the combination of bitter cold and lingering

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In case you missed it

I’ve been laid low by the flu. So today I commend to you two things that you may have missed–and should take a moment to

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A Curious Professor

Part I: Holberg In all the years of our long friendship, there was never a week that went by when Dale Brown and I did

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Words to Live By

I very recently had a birthday, and as I move more and more solidly into middle age (despite my internal protestation that I can still—even

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Workin’ It

At least one corner of the internet (so it must be true!) proclaimed yesterday, January 13th, National Poetry at Work Day.  [NB: This is not

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Joined with Gold

In response to the deadly attack at the offices of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris this week, this image has been circulating

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Talking Turkey

The Tuesday afternoon before Thanksgiving I left the house to run errands—only to spot a large, brown mass huddled in the snow underneath my front

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The Cookies of Lady Jacoba

This past summer, as part of an NEH seminar on Dante. I visited the beautiful town of Assisi, home of St. Francis. While we were

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