I, for one, am comforted by the silence. I am relieved that the stream of misinformation, disinformation and general mean-spirited lunacy has been plugged.
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7/8/21
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If you’re going to jump in, then jump. That was my thinking during these post-vaccine weeks when I suggested a five-day stay in Manhattan to my California kid and her kid.
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7/1/21
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Once upon a time, a super-spreader was a nifty tool for installing grout during a tiling job.
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6/24/21
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After 15 months, hundreds of miles, 800 pages and 40 hours of audio, I listened to the closing words of my book this week, and it was good.
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6/17/21
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There is a trifecta of trouble deep in the heart of Texas: Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas legislature and the state Board of Education.
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6/10/21
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Prom 2021 is an act of faith. It is kids needing to shake off more than a year of lockdowns, shutdowns, sickness and isolation. It is a down payment on good times ahead after an avalanche of disappointments.
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6/3/21
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Memorial Day events will take on new urgency this year as a kind of collective anti-insurrection rally.
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5/27/21
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Some folks say that the wheel was the greatest invention ever. Others point to the printing press, the internal combustion engine or the light bulb, but I think . . .
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5/20/21
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As poet Mary Oliver asks, “What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” In our (almost) post-pandemic lives, the question presses us for an answer.
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5/13/21
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Time-travel with me. The year was 1957. We had just moved to Cedarhurst from Queens, and it was the first day of class at Number Three School on Broadway.
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5/6/21
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