Jazz Festival sweatshirt
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Oh Dam!
We’re starting a new series, Oh Dam! This series will feature photos and information about hydraulic dams in the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Washington, and Oregon). Each week, the series will oscillate between information about a dam that exists in the PNW and information about how dams are built! We hope...
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9 Ways to Rejuvenate Yourself with Humor!
Funny Friday
Don’t have a New Year’s Resolution yet? Check out these 9 ways to rejuvenate yourself with humor!
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 13
Happy New Year! You did it! You survived the 13 days of winter break and the onslaught of random poetry brought to you by our staff. Tomorrow our office, Tumblr and lives will return to normal as we wait for the spring semester to begin. So I will leave you...
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 12
This New Year’s Eve, we say goodbye to 2019 and welcome the 2020s. Here is a poem to commemorate this momentous occasion: "Nuanced moments filled with anticipation.Every eye turned to the sky Wondering at the possibilities.Yesteryear has been fulfilled,Enlightened optimism forthcoming.All the world gathered to celebrate.Resolutions fill each mind, humming.Silent reverie...
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 11
We never imagined we would be able to write so many poems in such a short amount of time. It’s almost the end of the 13 days of winter break and we’re running out of steam, so here’s a poem about the dark days of winter... "The solstice has come...
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 10
Another day of break, another haiku: "Blue mountains galoreEnchanting starlight aboveBlock printing for all!"
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 9
Yet another mother and child from Mary Kirkwood, we will have a throwback to our iambic pentameter sonnet and amniotic fluid haiku for this poem about pregnancy and iambic pentameter. "no STRESS, no STRESS, no STRESSThe contractions comeSeparated by the minutest minutes five. no STRESS, no STRESS, no STRESSTime comes undonePrompted...
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 8
This poem is set to the melody of "What Child Is This," it is called "What Day is This?""What day is this?I’m losing track.No school or work to keep me.Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+I curl on the couch sleeping. Tumblr posts written pastPost now as they were scheduledYet, I think not of...
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 7
Yesterday, we had some verses in an attempt at iambic pentameter, there was some discussion among staff about iambic (amniotic) fluid in pregnancy, so today’s poem is about amniotic fluid. Here is a haiku:
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