“Seven Percent Interest”
As I lead tours of the History Gallery of the Oakland Museum of California, I inwardly debate...
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This Left Me Speechless
Death, meditation, positivity, grace, bliss, invisibility, and atrocity prompt introspection and deep emotions in the summer essay contest.
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Something That Disappeared
The seven winners of our winter essay contest ponder how keys, nasturtiums, youth, mothers, bikes, brothers, and redwoods go missing.
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The Giving Trees
In the 1893 inaugural volume of the UC Berkeley Botany Department journal Erythea, William P....
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An Oakland man reflects on his own heritage and that of the country he now calls home.
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