Voices
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Maybe everything that dies someday comes back
It is Friday, and I’m in North Adams, Mass. It’s overcast, maybe 60 degrees, and my wife, Susan, is still sleeping. This morning I…
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Learning endurance, patience, how to survive a fall
Childhood, the origin of all imaginative beginnings, while life is still limitless and full of wonder before the confines of adulthood, creates thickets of…
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The cause of death was ‘terminal stupidity’
I thought “Death by Stupidity” was a hit Hollywood thriller by Alfred Hitchcock from the 1950’s. What do I know? Stupidity Category I. Just…
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Christian anti-vaxxers take biggest gamble of all
A few years back, more than a few, actually, I was talking with my friend Rebecca about rampant stubbornness. “I don’t get it,” I…
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Most of our injury was humiliation, but still
Alright, it was supposed to be “moderate,” my guidebook also promising a trail hiked by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Herman Melville. Importantly,…