If you don’t have a sister, I urge you to get one, preferably a younger one, so you can boss her around. But in a pinch, any age will do . . .
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4/14/22
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I’m afraid if you didn’t cut your hair in March, potty train your 2-year-old, castrate your farm animals, quit smoking or get married, you probably missed the optimal moment for such events.
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4/7/22
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Arriving at age 75, alive, intact, and ready to roll into the future, I would like to share some reflections on the last seven-plus decades.
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3/31/22
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As the sun sails northward and we stand in the doorway known as spring, between a stark winter and a hopeful-looking summer, there is a passion to embrace life again . . .
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3/24/22
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Suddenly, a weekly newspaper seems just the right place to be talking about a war unfolding in real time. As I wrote last week . . .
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3/17/22
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After more than two years of obsessively parsing the news about the global pandemic ravaging the world, we now have an escalating war in Eastern Europe to distract us.
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3/10/22
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Neither Russia nor the Ukraine has ever been a welcoming homeland for the Jewish people. Despite the singing and dancing in “Fiddler on the Roof” . . .
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3/3/22
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How did he know? How did Ray Bradbury know in 1951 that the tiny black and white televisions popping up in everyone’s living room had the potential to alter human experience? How did Bradbury know . . .
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2/24/22
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Early in the coronavirus pandemic, it was easy to write off as stupid the folks who touted hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as go-to Covid-19 treatments.
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2/17/22
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No wonder I’m feeling full. In the past year I consumed 23 pounds of pizza.
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2/10/22
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