Author Archives: Deneen Gilmour

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About Deneen Gilmour

Deneen Gilmour is the MSUM professor who channels her senior students' work onto this blog. The stories and multimedia here are created by each semester's Mass Comm 405/Writing for the Web class. Gilmour was a daily newspaper journalist for 16 years before getting her Ph.D. and moving into academia. She and her husband, Jim, have a 20-year-old son and two daughters, 8 and 10.

First person stories on the extraction of wisdom teeth

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Three Days Before Thanksgiving

Story by Zach Koppang A Bright Light, Antibiotics and Eight Bleeding Sockets After so many years, I suppose I had become accustomed to the situation: a bright light hanging above me while I try my hardest to stare at the … Continue reading

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Bracing for the Inevitable: A Story of Questionable Orthodontia

Story by Noah Kleckner The year was 1999 and I was ten years old. Though it was half a lifetime ago, I still remember sitting in that comfy hydraulic chair, gazing around at plaster teeth molds and posters promoting the … Continue reading

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Eight bits of wisdom … gone for good

Story by Kayla Van Eps Every time I opened my mouth to talk or tried to chew food, the joint of my jaw, just in front of my left ear, grated loudly and felt like someone had replaced the bone … Continue reading

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Norwegian to U.S. friend: ‘Everything Is a Business in America’

Story by Rajeev Busgeeth Amanda Heller and Jon Andreas Sanne probably did not think much of me asking them to get dinner together on a Tuesday evening. We have been really good friends for a number of years now, so … Continue reading

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Charles in the chair … and under the knife

Story by Charles DeYoung For many American youth school breaks are oral surgery time The office is neat in its own tidy way. There are many chairs in the waiting room; all are empty. It is quiet, except for the faint … Continue reading

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