“At crucial moments of choice, most of the business of choosing is already over.” How else do we explain the choice of a boy, amidst the glory of fun with...
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“Marley was dead… as dead as a door nail.” With those famous words we enter into one of the best-ever stories, “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. It is read...
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To keep on keeping on. I first remember seeing those words in a “head shop” in Berkeley in the glory days of the counterculture, and they have run through my...
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“Take Idaho” was the way my sister-in-law Kathryn Elliott Stegall put it so very poetically as she mused over our longing to see all things well in the world. But...
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Like many, many others, I have long loved the work of children’s author and illustrator Tomie De Paola, and particularly how he includes insights into his Italian heritage and his...
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I love food. I love to eat food. I love to work with food but I think most of all I like to see food as my partner in serving,...
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