Top stories published by A Different Perspective in August of 2016

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Aug 13, 2016

A Psychology Primer: An Archetypal Look at Trump and Clinton

Four Jungian psychologists spent two hours deep in a webinar, “Turbulent Times — Is American Coming Undone,” for the Asheville, North Carolina Jung Center. Psychologists Murray Stein, Nancy Furlotti, Nathan Schwartz-Salant…

Anna Herrington in A Different Perspective

Aug 12, 2016

I Cannot.

To Those Who Wish Middle-aged Women Would Just Stay in Their Proper, Conforming Box

Here’s the age women should stop wearing skinny jeans, according to unscientific science.

Fox Kerry in A Different Perspective

Aug 8, 2016

I might be writing about you next

Muses wander the earth, like Shyamalan’s ghosts seeking attention.

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Aug 22, 2016

A Woman Explains New York City to a Group of Visiting Japanese

While the media world was swooning over American swimmer Ryan’s Lochte’s simpering “mea culpa” about concocting an Olympic-sized lie about being robbed by bad guys with guns in Rio, I was getting an earful from another…

Fox Kerry in A Different Perspective

Aug 30, 2016

who Claudette knew

when she closed her eyes she didn’t see what other girls saw . . .

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Fox Kerry in A Different Perspective

Aug 15, 2016

41 minutes to take back

if you’d askt me what i was doing there, sitting on my bum, dazed and spun around, unable to get back up for a while…

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Aug 4, 2016

Satire for the Ages: Bon Jovi, Aristophanes and Boccaccio’s “Famous Women”

Bon Jovi keeps showing up like a bad penny. This is a phase my mother used to describe a nosey neighbor who would become enshrined as Nosey Parker. I did a double take when my sinus doctor in New York…

Fox Kerry in A Different Perspective

Aug 13, 2016

“i’ve been trying to tell you”

“won’t you listen?” the little finch messaged.

Fox Kerry in A Different Perspective

Aug 9, 2016

The Ugly beautiful fact in the matter

dreaming in mud when the diamond goes missing — it’s murky champagne indeed.

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Aug 28, 2016

After Midnight and Crying Out for Mercy

I am approaching an altar in a Catholic Church from behind, as if I am a celebrant. I have a sense that I am lacking something, perhaps a text, a script or even some rough notes. Across the altar, I see a woman. She does not move.

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These were the top 10 stories published by A Different Perspective in August of 2016. You can also dive into daily archives for August of 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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A Different Perspective

Personal essay, memoir, photography, poetry, humor — what’s going on in your community? What’s the world like where you are? I don’t request stories — or edit them! — but am happy to consider your piece. @JustThinkingNow or annaherrington2@gmail.com

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