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Posts Tagged: Ryan McDonald

This Week in Essays

By Tamara Matthews

December 20th, 2017

A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!

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Tags: Britt Julious, Esquire, Hazlitt, Helena Fitzgerald, Highline, Kara Walker, Longreads, Michael Hobbes, Ryan McDonald, Sunanda Vaidheesh, the believer, This Week in Essays, Zoë Gadegbeku

The Dark All Around Us

By Ryan McDonald

December 14th, 2017

There is still light in the dark. This is the paradox that Little Bear has to accept in order to fall asleep.

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Tags: anxiety, Barbara Firth, Boston, brothers, Can't You Sleep Little Bear, Charles L. Nunn, childhood, darkness, David R. Samson, dinosaurs, family, fear, imagination, Jurassic Park, Martin Waddell, nightmares, nyctophobia, Pachycephalosaurus, parenting, phobias, Ryan McDonald, siblings, sisters, sleep, sleeping, stress, The Land Before Time

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