{"id":38662,"date":"2023-10-02T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/osher\/?p=38662"},"modified":"2023-09-20T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:23:07","slug":"personal-writing-sig-tom-baerwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/osher\/blog\/2023\/10\/02\/personal-writing-sig-tom-baerwald\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Writing SIG: Tom Baerwald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Personal Writing Special Interest Group (SIG) welcomes the opportunity to share selected works of its members.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s featured writing is from SIG member <strong>Tom Baerwald<\/strong>: <em>Conversations From a Neighborhood App.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tom is a geographer who spent most of his professional career working at the National Science Foundation in the Washington, D.C. area. Since retiring and moving to Idaho, he has become active at the Osher Institute. 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