Opinion Forum

Environmental Writing 2012

May 24th, 2012

By Jan Barry Are electric cars the wave of the future? Why are bomb squads frequent visitors to a New Jersey business park? What’s up with both solar panels and natural gas pipelines spreading across the Garden State landscape? These are just some of the timely and essential ecological issues that 15 student-reporters at Ramapo […]

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Tags: environment, issues, Ramapo College, reporting, students, writing
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Living with Death’s Shadow

December 23rd, 2010

By Jan Barry Holiday blues. Survivor guilt. Withering blasts of grief. Like so many war veterans, I’ve been living with these and other chronic nightmares most of my adult life. It often gets worse during holiday seasons and certain anniversaries. For many of us, this is an intensely private story that’s seldom talked about in […]

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Tags: grief, guilt, loss, poetry, PTSD, support groups, survivor, veterans, writing
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War Writing Retreat

March 11th, 2010

By Jan Barry Far from the televised spectacle of Olympic athletes whooping or weeping in joy or anguish in pursuit of split-second victories, some other highly dedicated young people quietly gathered to share strategies for coping with relentless physical and emotional turmoil—in this case, from participating in deliberately deadly international contests. The gathering of edgy […]

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Tags: art, poetry, retreat, veterans, workshop, writing
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