Author Archives: Stewart
How I’m going to pay off $77,412 in student loans in 5 years
I’m part of the first generation in both my mother’s and father’s families to earn a college degree. I never planned to go to college, never planned how I was going to pay tuition, and graduated after 5 years just short of a master’s degree facing 25 years of debt repayment and more than $80,000 in interest. Now I’m making a plan to be debt free by age 33.
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Not surprisingly, plants can talk and remember
I’ve long suspected that plants and animals have far more advanced cognitive abilities than we give them credit for, communicating in ways that we don’t perceive and have yet begun to understand: …a pea plant subjected to drought conditions communicated its [...]
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Spring 2012
The beginning of this year has been full of self-assurance and a strong sense of direction. Thank you.
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Why the pedophile is a victim too
In which I explain how a middle-aged, married, school teacher can become a pedophile without having moral failings, and a homeless man deserves to be on a street corner no more than I deserve to be in my warm bed at night, with a paycheck, made out by an accounting office at a tech startup that I work at, being regularly electronically deposited into my bank account, and why we are all just acting the only way we know how, given the circumstances before us.
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Why autonomy should be accorded to babies
Aubrey Hirsch, from On Pregnancy and Privacy and Fear: The baby will have my last name, which is different than my husband’s. People seem confused by this. I don’t mind their confusion. I actually kind of like it. It makes [...]