
Suzanne Spencer Rendahl
CommentatorSuzanne Spencer Rendahl is a former journalist whose work has appeared in publications including the Boston Globe. She lives with her husband and two children in Plainfield, NH.
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When I was a high school student in suburban Connecticut in the late eighties, I came across a letter on our family kitchen table one evening about an�
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Recently, as my eight year old son was walking through the family room, I heard him chanting something unusual: “Build a Wall! Build a Wall!� When I asked�
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At a time when the U.S. is tending to look inward with proposed walls and tariffs, kids across the country have instead been looking beyond our borders.�
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My daughter’s in seventh grade - the age of pre-algebra, dances, and crushes. Once it was also the age of many newlyweds and it startles me to realize�
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Up until recently, I had only known the National Rifle Association as the sporting turned Second Amendment lobbying group that has fought against proposed�
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It seemed like an uncontroversial move when the Lebanon, New Hampshire, school board voted last fall to ban faculty, students, and members of the public�
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For weeks, I slogged my way through the almost seven hundred page American Ulysses: A life of Ulysses S. Grant, one of the two recent big biographies of�
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For the past two decades, one of the highlights for kindergarten through third grade kids at the Plainfield, New Hampshire elementary school � and one of�
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It was a warm April afternoon in nineteen ninety nine when I first heard about the Columbine massacre in which two Columbine shooters killed thirteen�
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In nineteen eighty nine, after living in Washington State, Ohio, Virginia, and Connecticut, I moved to New Hampshire to attend college. After living for�