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Friday, November 29, 2019
This Year I am Thankful for an Empty Nest...and Zombieland
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For the first time in my fifty-odd years, I celebrated Thanksgiving without my kids, without the comfort of my parents, or my siblings and t...
Friday, June 7, 2019
The Sweet Tradition: Five Years of Donuts and the Unexpected Power of Showing Up
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Sometimes the smallest gestures create the most lasting traditions. It started with a box of donuts and a team that needed to remember they ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Wanting to Be Snoopy, Feeling Like Charlie Brown
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Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Peanuts . Not just the Sunday comics or the TV specials we all grew up with, but the...
Monday, November 19, 2018
The Unfinished Work: Civic Understanding and the Fragile State of American Democracy
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Abraham Lincoln has been one of my heroes for as long as I can remember, second only to my parents. My earliest memory of a family vacation ...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Castles in the Clouds (Now with Structural Integrity)
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Over the past seven years, I’ve had the honor and, let’s be honest, occasional heartburn of watching each of my kids graduate from high scho...
Saturday, May 27, 2017
The Last Game
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Last night, May 26, 2017. I'm sitting in my living room in La Crescenta, laptop open, watching a grainy live stream of the ...
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