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Monthly Archives: March 2018
First book out: The Hands-On Life: How to Wake Yourself Up and Save The World.
Longtime Cheapskate readers will recognize lots of the ideas and anecdotes here – thank you for being a great and supportive community all these years. I’m launching the book at Dragonfly Books and will be taking it to Content Books … Continue reading
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Education and reality.
This weekend I read Tara Westover’s new memoir Educated in one sitting. The story it tells is compelling: raised in a survivalist, fundamentalist-Mormon family in Idaho, Westover first attends school at age seventeen (her first day at Brigham Young University) … Continue reading
Posted in culture, higher education, politics, self-reliance, teaching, the past, women
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