Sopa Chöling

This is the family email sent from Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 2016   Hi everyone:  I’m writing this from the bar at the Alt Hotel in Halifax. Tomorrow I’ll head back to Minnesota.  I’ll drive down to Madison on the 13th of December. I flew into Halifax about two weeks ago and had a nice…

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Selective Midwestern College

(This was a group writing project, written in the car by the kids after our road trip visiting 7 colleges.) Selective Midwestern College So welcome to SMC, Selective Midwestern College.  I’m your student ambassador.  I want to welcome you again.  I will talk and walk backwards, even over curbs.  So who are you and what…

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Goodbye to All That

Here’s the family email sent after delivering two of three triplets to college…(and–then the five of us collaborated while driving home on a piece inspired by tours of prospective college:  “Selective Midwestern College“) Hi everyone: We’re back from delivering 2 of the 3.  It’s Saturday night.  We went down on Thursday. Thursday was uneventful, except…

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