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Read more: Delighted by flawed peoplePeople with character “possess an impressive inner cohesion…get things done…have achieved a certain depth,” says David Brooks in his book The Road to Character. Brooks…
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Read more: A true refugeI mentioned in another blog post that I am organizing my library and parting with some books that have been friends for decades. In one…
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Read more: My new mini-habitI have books in my office, books in my closet, books stacked in tall piles in my bedroom. I have been saying for years that…
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Read more: Western civilization?When he came to England in the 1930s for talks on Indian self-rule, Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western Civilization, says Dr.…
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Read more: Be yourselfGloria Steinem once suggested that women have three alternatives as they grow older. “If there are three alternatives, the first being to go along with…
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Read more: The beauty of differencesI found this great quote on a notecard, one that was at the bottom of a pile in an disorganized drawer. “Friendship comes with the…
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Read more: Self-knowledge or self-preoccupation?Fayteen and I always have thought that self-knowledge is a good thing. But, author Elizabeth Dreyer, in her book Accidental Theologians, offers an interesting question.…
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Read more: Barely domesticI’m behind on my spring cleaning. Of course, I have a good excuse this year—my broken leg. But, this is not the first year I’ve…
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Read more: Smuggling mice and working hardRita Levi-Montalcini once smuggled a pair of mice on a plane to Brazil by tucking them in her purse or maybe it was her pocket.…
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Read more: A Few Things We’re Certain AboutWe know far less that we think we do about what we eat, says David B. Allison of the University of Alabama-Birmingham in an article…