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.

Banking on Community

For members of Phoenixville Area Time Bank, “exchanges are not exchanges. They’re connections.”

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Dear Memoir

An open letter to a popular genre.

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Greenberg and the Fight for Fearless Identity

The audience hopes the last scene is not the start of one more lonely cycle, and is given reasonable grounds for expecting it to be the start of something new.

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This Pain Is Not For You

Can we use sad music any way we see fit? Or does the disclosure of pain oblige us to think carefully about the way we listen?

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On Keeping a Spiritual Travelogue

I had no paradigm for my grandfather’s quiet faith, but his journal changed all that.

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Learning to Love Jonathan Richman

It’s Jonathan Richman’s lack of snide irony that lets him indulge in wonder.

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Down-to-Earth Romanticism: Jane Campion’s Bright Star

In Bright Star, Jane Campion steers the love story of Fanny Brawne and John Keats away from sentimentality.

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Manna in the Neon Wilderness

The joys, and pros, and cons of participating in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).

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Creativity, Community, and Secret Agents

826 CHI: your one-stop shop for tutoring and supplies for your work as a secret agent.

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Connecting Refugees,
One Bead at a Time

Refugee Beads and Village Gatherings help establish connections and make lasting changes in the life of refugees – and Americans.

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