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Aug 7, 2024 | 
oomscholasticblog.com | Alan Gratz |Jonathan Todd |Jennifer L. Holm |Matthew Holm
Refresh your student's reading list with these engaging middle grade and young adult titles as the new school year approaches! From heartwarming stories to adventurous tales to coming of age themes, this round-up has something for every reader.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
12thmanrising.com | Matthew Holm
Man, I take a vacation for a couple weeks and everything goes up in smoke. Is this what parenting feels like? I watched the Seattle Seahawks eke out a win against P.J. Walker and the Browns, who schemed Seattle's defense up with remarkable elegance and forced Geno Smith to beat them on offense. Then, I got on a plane for Hawai'i and mercifully missed the Ravens game, and then the Commanders game on the way back.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
12thmanrising.com | Matthew Holm
I wasn't alive to watch or listen to the Miracle on Ice when it happened in 1980. I've only had the Kurt Russell movie and my father's accounts to go on. But Ken Dryden said something very poignant before the most famous hockey game in American history — "It's one thing to be young and promising, and it's quite another to be good."Such is the plight of the Seattle Seahawks at the moment.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
12thmanrising.com | Matthew Holm
This wall won't hold forever — your time has come; it's now or never. By Matthew Holm | 6:00 AM PDTAs ever, so today — if it's not one thing, it's another. If ever there was a feeling that could be described as universal, it would have to be that exact sentiment: the feeling that if only one could go even a day without some new thing to worry about, that we would be free to set ourselves up for interminable success.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
12thmanrising.com | Matthew Holm
Believe in everything you've ever known - these years will never be untold. By Matthew Holm | 8:00 AM PDTThe last couple days, I've been thinking a lot about how this Seattle Seahawks team will go down in NFL history. It's an exciting time for many Seahawks fans, but quietly, it could also very well be a swan song. Pete Carroll is 72 years old, just three years younger than Mike Holmgren, who hung up the headset a full 15 years ago now after a similarly illustrious career.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
12thmanrising.com | Matthew Holm
I feel for Daniel Jones. I really do. I can remember times when no matter what I did, it felt like I was completely at the mercy of a disinterested universe — when it didn't matter if I went sleepless trying to make something work because the greater forces of the universe (or, in Jones' case, the Seattle Seahawks defense) seemed to conspire to throw anything and everything in front of me to keep my wheels spinning. I like to think we've all had times in our lives where we've felt like that.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
12thmanrising.com | Matthew Holm
"And I would like to be able to continue to let what is inside of me ... I would like for that to come out."By Matthew Holm | 12:00 PM PDTI relate to this Seattle Seahawks team on a personal level at times. In years past, I've been told I was unusually gifted. I often took snide half-compliments from my peers because it seemed as though I never had to work to get the same test scores they did. I was given solos in the various musical groups I joined over the years, despite rarely practicing.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
12thmanrising.com | Matthew Holm
Legends are lionized in their greatest triumphs, but they are made in their greatest failures. By Matthew Holm | 10:00 AM PDTEveryone remembers how the 2013 Seattle Seahawks became one of the most dominant teams in NFL history, rolling over the vast majority of their regular season competition on the way to maybe the most impressive Super Bowl win in NFL history. What people tend to forget is how the previous season ended on one of the greatest last-second collapses in NFL playoff history.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
12thmanrising.com | Matthew Holm
September 11, 2005 and the Seattle Seahawks are playing the Jacksonville Jaguars. I'm sitting in my living room in West Lafayette, Indiana, waiting for the 2005 NFL season to kick off. It's been a long summer — I'm in a new town, 2,000 miles away from anyone and everyone I know, and I'm finally getting some familiarity for the first time in months. The Seahawks are wearing their steel blue jerseys for a road game, which I will come to learn is never a good sign.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
12thmanrising.com | Matthew Holm
The Seahawks defeated the Cowboys in preseason Week 2. By Matthew Holm | 8:00 AM PDTOver the course of the offseason, both media members and fan writers like myself have taken turns patting the Seattle Seahawks on the back. And for good reason — they've done all the right things to mold a young team with lots of offensive firepower into a plausible contender. They shored up what was a porous defense and fortified the offense against the attrition that goes on in a typical football season.
