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My life is fairly stressful.  I know, I know.  I’m not alone.  We’ve all got our stuff to worry about.  Health, family,  jobs, burnout, money, politics, sports teams behaving as…

War has got to be the stupidest way imaginable to resolve disputes.  I mean, think about it.  If you had two six-year-olds on a school playground arguing about whose turn…

I saw La Boheme at the Atlanta Opera the other night.[1]  La Boheme, by Giacomo Puccini[2] is one of the most popular operas and likely, even if you hate opera,…

I got my nails done the other day, which I’m sure you don’t care about because, well, why would you.  But it makes a good prelude to my point, so…

My son, who was born almost three weeks early and a scant six and a half pounds, is graduating from college in May.  His plan is to go on and…

In 1675, Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”  What this means is several things.  One, that by quoting…

I remember being in my early twenties and becoming aware of how much larger the world was than the one my parents had showed me.  I wanted to see all…

In first grade, we did a science experiment where we turned ordinary looking beans into bam-wham-zam! plants.  Those plants, you might be surprised to learn, grew long string beans on…

One day I will be dead, and I find this a comfort.  Part of that is the oft-told, off-color joke, “I’ll rest when I’m dead.” And part of that is…

I have to check myself from my predator instincts, but my dog doesn’t. We got our dog, Lincoln, from a shelter when he was three months old, so I can’t…