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A friend of mine spent four months last year applying to a posting that had been live since the previous September. Same listing, same requisition number, reposted every thirty days. He was intervi…

In April a man in the Thursday group at the county library said that he had thought about what we discussed in March, and that he now believed the opposite of what he had argued for two hours. He s…

My neighbour cancelled a birthday party on a Saturday in June because the forecast said thirty percent chance of rain, and then it did not rain, and he told me the forecast had been wrong. Three we…

We had eleven children in class four this year. The room has fifty desks in it because it was built in 1974 for fifty children, by people who had carried the idea of a school out of Tibet along wit…

The form is one side of a sheet, printed cheaply, and I have a copy of it from a low-fee private school in a district town where I ran a workshop for two years. Name of student. Date of birth. Prev…

In the staff room of a government secondary school in a district town, over two years of visits, I worked out where the children of the eleven teachers went to school. Nine were in private schools …

There is a film I have seen, conservatively, forty times. It came out when I was eleven and I saw it first in a second-run theater in a midwestern town that does not have one any more. It has a plo…

I went back to Ohio in April to look at a plant that opened in 2023 with a great deal of ceremony. It makes a part that used to be made in Monterrey. The governor came. There were remarks about bri…

Station 04185000 sits on a concrete pier under a county road bridge in northwest Ohio, and it has been reporting stage height every fifteen minutes since 1974. In April 2018 a piece of agricultural…

On the survey sheet the village is spelled one way. In the revenue records it is spelled a second way, which is the surveyor's spelling with one vowel altered by a clerk at some point before 1911. …