A lot more people are working from home right now due to coronavirus. Let an expert tell you how to make the best of it.
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Tuesdays with Anna
For five years I’ve taken my daughter to piano lessons. To me it’s about way more than the piano lessons.
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“The Most Devastating War Machine Ever!”
I found something in my storage unit that reminded me how insane the run-up to the first Gulf War truly was
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Examining Your Luck Tree
How hard did you work to get where you are? How lucky were you? Are you sure about that?
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Long Chile, Ohio2, and the Snack Rack
A story about what it’s like to have a couple of Gen-Z kids who go viral.
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A Supposedly Fun Thing That Was Actually Pretty OK
I never thought I was a cruise person. And I may still not be. But a celiac disease-themed cruise opened my eyes.
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Life During Forever Wartime
I was taught that war was bad, but sometimes necessary, and eventually it ended. The latter two concepts seem to no longer apply.
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Ranking Every Year of Your Life
I was born in 1973. Here’s how that’s gone so far.
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The Compound in New Albany
Yesterday the Washington Post told the story of Maria Farmer, an artist who was commissioned by the disgraced and deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein to do some paintings in the mid-1990s. In reality, Farmer alleges, Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell used the opportunity to sexually assault her while she was held virtual prisoner in […]
Read more9/11 and Modern Memory
My kids are studying 9/11 in school. Yesterday my son was talking about it and described a video they watched featuring victims, family members of victims, and witnesses as “old people talking about 9/11.” He spoke of it in the same terms as we might’ve talked about History Channel shows featuring World War II veterans. […]
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