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My Health Story

Sisters Sharing Musical Talent and Health Issues

By Kara Rota, Contributor
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by 1 Comment

Sephira: Joyce and Ruth O’Leary

Joyce and Ruth O’Leary are your average pair of young Irish sisters in their early twenties. They share outfits, finish each other’s sentences, and cheer each other up when one is having a hard day. There’s just one difference: together, Joyce and Ruth make up Sephira, an Irish crossover act that combines passionate violin playing, ethereal singing and showstopping choreography … [Read more...] about Sisters Sharing Musical Talent and Health Issues

Comfortable in My Own Skin

By Emma Graves Fitzsimmons, Contributor
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by 3 Comments

Emma Graves Fitzsimmons with her husband, Gerry, a few weeks before her Mohs surgery last summer.

After a diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma at age twenty-eight, Emma Graves Fitzsimmons got smart about being in the sun. I wish I could say that I’ve always appreciated my porcelain skin. But for as long as I can remember, I’ve preferred the way I look with a tan and longed to be outdoors with the sun’s rays on my face. That all changed when I was diagnosed with basal cell … [Read more...] about Comfortable in My Own Skin

Finding the Other: The Metamorphosis and Compassion

By Molly McCloskey, Contributor
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Above: The McCloskey family on the beach at Ocean City, 1968. In 1983: Jack, Steve, Molly, Tim, John and Mike. Courtesy of Molly McCloskey

Molly McCloskey, the author of Circles Around the Sun, shares how one profound reading experience led her to better understand her older brother who suffers from schizophrenia. I can still recall, in the way one recalls the most powerful reading experiences of one’s life, lying on the bed in my studio apartment in Portland, Oregon, and reading “The Metamorphosis” for the first … [Read more...] about Finding the Other: The Metamorphosis and Compassion

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August 9, 1850

The Irish Tenant Right League is established on this day in 1850. Founded by Charles Duffy and Frederick Lucas with the purpose of reforming the Irish land system, the Tenant league was able to unite both Protestant and Catholic tenants under one cause. Based in Dublin, the League focused on three objectives: fair rent, fixity of tenure, and free sale.

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