Rebecca Tirrell Talbot

Rebecca Tirrell Talbot has many part-time identities. She is an adjunct instructor, teaching English at Philadelphia Biblical University and technical writing at Temple University. She is a part-time technical writer (and thus, she has adopted the mantra, "technically, I should be writing") and works on her own creative writing, too.

Not Home for the Holidays

It still just feels like Christmas is where Mom is. There’s no way around it.

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Books to Read
In a Cabin in the Woods

Having forfeited pleasures of nature for worlds of fiction and creative nonfiction, I am here to recommend three books that are perfect to pack if you’re planning a mountain- or lake-side vacation this autumn.

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A Trail of Belongings

Is this just another way that consumerism has seeped into me, making me think that the way my accessories sculpt my surroundings offers the best means of knowing my true self?

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Ultimate Liberty, Ultimate Fun

A cup of coffee with composer Ron Thomas.

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Choose Your Words

Each line of a poem is a mystery, a puzzle for the mind to solve. Good poems are mysteries so absorbing that only by carrying them around with me does the mystery begin to make sense.

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I Try To Keep My Language Classy

Checking in with the Cains and Abels.

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Works (and Cities) in Progress

How the GoggleWorks arts center inspires pride and hope in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Mattie Ross and the Golden Age of Feminine Aplomb

Girlhood, growing up, and the young heroine of True Grit.

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An In-Between Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving seems to be for the firmly grounded, so how does someone keep this feast if her way of life feels temporary?

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Dauphin Street

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetic aesthetics suggest a singular place to be both creature and creator.

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