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Virginia Gilbert

Virginia Gilbert

I agree with your headline and subhead (What's measurable isn't always important, and what's…

Since you mentioned the craft of writing and offered one of your favorite articles in contrast to one of your most read articles, I'd like…

Mar 24, 2021

Mar 24, 2021

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Draining My Mind While Sifting through Rhyme

I’m inspired by the prompt of colander and decided I’m in, around and all under but can’t decide should I throw the ball under or over…

Jun 20, 2020

Draining My Mind While Sifting through Rhyme

Jun 20, 2020

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Love is Long

But though hate rises in enfolding flame At each renewed oppression, soon it dies: It sinks as quickly as we saw it rise, While love’s…

Jun 13, 2020

Love is Long

Jun 13, 2020

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Altered States of Consciousness: Time Travel to an Earthquake

Norri woke with the familiar snap and looked around. The air was chilly. The limestone slab was there, but somehow the chiseled lettering…

Jun 6, 2020

Altered States of Consciousness: Time Travel to an Earthquake

Jun 6, 2020

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To the Sea

To the Sea

May 30, 2020

To the Sea

May 30, 2020

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Gran’s Tool Box

I’m sitting at my grandmother’s bedside, watching the rise and fall of her breathing, wondering whether she will awaken and, if so…

May 16, 2020

Gran’s Tool Box

May 16, 2020

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I Conquered My Fear and Got Into the Biology Lab — Step by Step

Don’t look down. Just look ahead. Hold onto the rail and step forward. You can do this. Hold your books. Look into other people’s faces…

May 2, 2020

I Conquered My Fear and Got Into the Biology Lab — Step by Step

May 2, 2020

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Legos: A Parent’s Dilemma

“Now put away those legos ‘fore they’re stepped on.” I hear my Mom’s command, but have another thought: Be careful, or the image in the…

Nov 9, 2019

Legos: A Parent’s Dilemma

Nov 9, 2019

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Seven Tips to Tighten Your Writing

In my 28 years at a metropolitan daily newspaper, the managing editor often exhorted us to “write tight.”

Jan 31, 2019

Seven Tips to Tighten Your Writing

Jan 31, 2019

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Machine of Death

What if a machine could tell you how you were going to die?

Sep 24, 2018

Machine of Death

Sep 24, 2018

Virginia Gilbert

Virginia Gilbert

Retired journalist, occasional preacher with two seminary degrees, wannabe ethics writer. Born and reared in MO Bootheel; moving from St. Louis to Chicago.

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