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Editor’s Choice
Winter 2025
Essays
When I was a senior, I took Sand Hill Road all the way home to Missouri.
By Anne Sutton Canfield
My on-campus housing was free and the envy of my friends. Then the weather changed.
by John Church
A successful author takes a second shot at the GRE, 40 years after the first.
by Martha Freeman
After my name, it’s probably the most special thing about me—and it’s used as a slur in Europe.
by Yanichka Ariunbold
Leland Stanford and I have one thing in common: railroad troubles.
by Chuck Fulkerson
I wish my husband could see how people remember him.
by Karen Law
These days, when I look at my home, I see the nightmare that could be.
by Melinda Sacks
How one tiny cactus boosted my will to give.
by David Schweidel
It all started when Anna wanted to study ants. Or did it?
by Judith L. Wagner
A community of writers taught me a lesson about trust.
by Shelley Ring Diamond
Based on slightly exaggerated actual attempts.
by Summer Moore Batte
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