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Plane crash sets off long tail of grief

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Thinking of the past as a duck farm hangs on

26.01.2025 4

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Hard questions follow California fires

12.01.2025 20

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Peace is but a dream in this new year

Hopes that this new year would enter peacefully were probably always foolish. It's a perennial wish, but one we should acknowledge as more dream...

05.01.2025 2

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Holidays give comfort amid change

The holidays are here. And it feels like we need them more than ever. We need their traditions and their rituals, their reliability and their...

16.12.2024 3

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Dealing with change that fills our lives

We sat down to dinner on a recent Friday night, and with the meal we had a salad. On the salad were tomatoes — from our garden. This was on Nov....

24.11.2024 4

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Uranus, Pompeii and the search for truth

In this past week of political hubbub and hullabaloo, I found myself thinking about Uranus and Pompeii. No, I’m not crazy. Though this doesn’t...

17.11.2024 4

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Finding balm in these cacophonous times

I went to a concert last Sunday night. It was almost election eve, the peak of the great roil that consumes our country every four years — a...

10.11.2024 4

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Time slows down in an election season crawl

Time speeds up as you get older. We know it intuitively and can prove it mathematically. One year to a 5-year-old is 20% of their lifetime — and...

03.11.2024 3

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The truth just keeps getting harder to find

Did you see the image? It coursed through social media in the wake of Hurricane Helene, and showed a frightened little girl in a motorboat fleeing...

20.10.2024 2

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We all could use a break from the news

The news, as it often is wont to be, has been loud or gloomy of late. Sometimes both. The presidential election steamrolls forward in all its...

06.10.2024 2

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Helene's reminder: We must be prepared

As Hurricane Helene barreled across the Gulf of Mexico, many of us did what we usually do. We watched radar depictions of the storm as it...

29.09.2024 5

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We must come to grips with political violence

In Alaska this week, a man was arrested for threatening to torture and kill six Supreme Court justices. It was a blip on our national news feeds....

21.09.2024 3

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A lament for the trees that now are gone

My neighborhood lost two more trees this week. That I know of. Both were oaks. One was majestic, a good 100-feet-plus. Looking out from my house,...

01.09.2024 3

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Space snafu a black eye for Boeing

Butch and Suni are lost in space. OK, “lost” is a little harsh for what’s happening to NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni”...

11.08.2024 1

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Paris Olympics are holding a mirror to real life

Before we get too far into August, can we take a moment to recall July? Even by our modern firehose-of-news standards, it was one of the craziest...

04.08.2024 2

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