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This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: Rose Sandler wants to gallop in the footsteps of a conqueror. Centuries before Pony Express riders thundered across the untamed American West, Genghis Khan established a long-distance postal system using horse messengers in the Mongol steppe. Since 2009, a group known as The Adventurists has hosted…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: A baccarat crystal knob seems an unlikely nemesis. But that changes when your hands are fused into permanent fists. Megan Barron realized too late – about the time the stall door clicked shut – that she couldn’t manipulate the knob. She was in a fancy restaurant…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: The first time Mom introduced us to him, he likes to joke, “she claimed you were circus dwarves.” Not too long after that, Tom Berger became stepfather to me and my brother, Don. I don’t know if he was ready to be a father. I certainly…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: “Ha-ha!” I was walking down Club Boulevard in front of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, pushing John Michael in the jogging stroller. I glanced to my left at the source of the laughter: A blond-haired man in his 20s, head poking out the…