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Dec.23.2012
Every year in November or December I spend a few hours rereading one of my favorite Christmas novels: “The Joyous Season,” by Patrick Dennis. It’s the tale of a pair of Manhattan siblings whose parents’ marriage implodes over one Christmas in the mid-1960s, and over the years it has had me laughing...
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Nov.04.2011
“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud” – Carl Sandburg
Everywhere I turn it seems that I hear about how bad the economy is: which European country is going to default next, what politician has committed which carnal sin, and...
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