Voices
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I wonder if he still carries those memories
It is Sunday morning, and I’m sitting at a conference-sized table with an almost-done Ravensburger 1,000-piece puzzle centered on its wooden surface. As I…
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The best or the worst of times?
Charles Dickens may have been correct about his era: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the…
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Flag represents the good, the bad, the ugly
A couple weeks ago the editorial board of the New York Times published an online project titled, “Redesigning America’s Flag: Six New Takes on…
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Fathers are going to have to up their parenting game
It is Saturday, and I’m in Massachusetts. It is early, 50 degrees, and I’ve got a cup of Malabar coffee grown in Ethiopia. The…
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We are raising a generation of map-avoiding illiterates
It is Sunday, and I’m in Massachusetts. Yesterday my wife and I hiked a short, relatively level trail featuring edible, trailside blueberries and the…