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The Herdman in All of Us

In her 1971 story, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Barbara Robinson introduced me to the Herdman clan. With eyes squinted, arm extended and fingers pinched to the thickness of a hair, my mother warned me that I was “this close” to becoming Ralph Herdman,...

DreamWrights Alumni: What are Those Kids Up to Now?

Ann Noll used to say that she wished she could look into the future and “see what’s in store for our DreamWrights kids.” In an August 2000 edition of the Dream Dispatch “What are Those Kids Up to Now?” column, she writes, “It’s exciting to wonder what kind of amazing...

The Importance of a Soup Pot

Hello, I’m a soup pot- name’s Maximillon Trunhouser.  You may call me MT, everyone else does. I’d like to tell you about the most important night of my life … so far. There I was, sitting by myself on a shelf in the basement of a church. I was lonely...