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Starting Your Career in 2023

The problem with this day and age is people are afraid to be seen as fools. I don’t mean deliberately obnoxious fools

Seeing with New Eyes

On the morning of April 18, just before I sat down to work on the second draft of this column, a column

Commonplace: Then and Now

Meteorological Spring starts on March 1 and includes March, April, and May. In 2023, Astronomical Spring started on March 20, the day

Everybody’s History

Writers William Faulkner and James Baldwin both suggest the past is never past; we carry history in us. People’s stories show how

Trigger Warning

We all speak different languages. Punctuation on paper conveys emotion; we punctuate our spoken words with tone of voice and body language.

Looking All Ways Always

I recently found a faded, wrinkled, penciled list of hopes and dreams I’d written for what I believe was the first and

We Now Know

It was in November 2011 while hiking in Clark Reservation that I suddenly remembered people and places I’d known when I was

Mapping the News Over Time

Itinerant messengers, speakers, and scribes have long carried stories and news from near and far throughout time.

Home Grown Ingredients

Many people believe that it’s bad manners to discuss politics over dinner. Merriam Webster defines politics as “the art or science of government.”

Our Living Constitutions

Independence Day on July 4 celebrates the thirteen colonies break from Britain in 1776. The Revolutionary War, and all the discussions and documents