OPD 08/01/2006 © 2006 Brooke Allen brooke@brookeallen.com http://www.BrookeAllen.com Originally published in International Family Magazine I once had a run-in with a shopkeeper in New York City so I wrote down his license number and began calling the consumer affairs hotline. The line was busy. I put the number on speed-dial. The number was busy forContinue reading “How to Complain to the Government”
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How to Respond to a Citizen
OPD 08/01/2006 brooke@brookeallen.com http://www.BrookeAllen.com Originally published in International Family Magazine After sending the mayor the letter, I felt so much better. The consumer affairs hotline still didn’t pick up their phone but that no longer mattered. I had so much fun thinking up the letter and I was proud of myself. A few months afterContinue reading “How to Respond to a Citizen”
How I Learned to Wiggle My Ears
OPD 07/01/2006 © 2006 Brooke Allen brooke@brookeallen.net http://www.BrookeAllen.net Originally published in International Family Magazine You might be amazed to know that you have muscles that don’t get wired up to your brain unless you work at it. When I was nine we moved to a new house that had a large field that had beenContinue reading “How I Learned to Wiggle My Ears”
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