The Archer School for Girls

Sacrament of Fear

Steven Denlinger | Posted 03.14.2008 | Living

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Steven Denlinger

Although I love Ohio, when I left it had become a place of dependence for me. I needed to put my roots down here in L.A., a place where I could throw off the last of the control rods of my past.

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Bartering My Future

Steven Denlinger | Posted 03.07.2008 | Living

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Steven Denlinger

I got off the airplane at LAX, collected my bags, and eventually stepped through the sliding glass doors onto the sidewalk.

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The Pain of Caring

Steven Denlinger | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living

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Steven Denlinger

It isn't the person dying who finds it hardest to live.

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Talking With Diana Meehan, Co-Founder Of The Archer School

E. A. Hanks | Posted 11.16.2007 | Living

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E. A. Hanks

Girls in classrooms were consistently undermined and overlooked. They're taught to behave, in every stage of learning, in every sort of school. Except in girl's schools, of course.

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The Subtext of Confession

Steven Denlinger | Posted 11.01.2007 | Home

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Steven Denlinger

THE BISHOP paused. He glanced back at me sitting there. He seemed to look directly into my soul, his eyes intense, passionate. My eyes dropped. I...

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Los Angeles is on fire! Disaster unearths contradictory memories of my Amish-Mennonite background

Steven Denlinger | Posted 10.25.2007 | Living

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Steven Denlinger

My mother called me from Ohio the other night, worried about the fires. She asked me if I was all right. "Sure," I told her. "I'm safe - I live i...

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