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Hildegard Hingle was born and raised in a small town in Southern Germany. She has worked over the years as a bookkeeper, a rater for Educational Testing Service, and a freelance editor. In her next life (with vastly improved math skills), she hopes to solve the mystery of dark matter.

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Of Eucalyptus And Elm Trees And Fathers, Too

The guest judge for Writing It Real’s summer/fall 2011 writing contest was Susan Bono, who chose “Eucalyptus And Elm Trees And Fathers, Too” as our third place winner. Susan wrote about the work that it “flowed so naturally. The writer uses the eucalyptus tree that used to be part of her view to trigger a…

Lucy’s Choice

Here is our third place winner in the recent WIR essay and poetry contest. We posted our first place winner last week and we’ll be posting the second place winner — a poem — next week. When you read Hildegard’s essay about an elderly friend, think about the ways in which the essay grounds us…