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Read more: Good work doesn’t come easy“I hate to write,” Anna Quindlen told the audience at a recent Arts & Letters Live appearance in Dallas. “That’s what I always tell students…
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Read more: Spring brings hopeMy daughter, Ranna, who battled breast cancer for three years and conquered it, has another battle to fight. On April 7, doctors will insert two…
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Read more: Do what you love?“Do what you love, love what you do” has become the unofficial work mantra for our time, writes Esther Cepeda in the January 27, 2014,…
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Read more: The ledger of daily workHow do we define success? Am I successful if perform an act of courage? If I climb to the top of my profession? If I…
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Read more: Contemplative at the eye of chaosSister Joan Chittister, author of many books and a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, talks about “being contemplative at the eye of…
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Read more: Sing your songIt was big news. In Canterbury, England, in the Canterbury Cathedral, where boys’ choirs have sung for more than 1,000 years, a choir of 16…
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Read more: Applause for Lupita Nyong’oLupita Nyong’o was beautiful and black when she accepted an Oscar award recently for best supporting actress in “12 Years a Slave.” In her pale…
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Read more: How to get ahead“The secret to getting ahead is getting started,” Mark Twain once said. I discovered that quote recently at a Weight Watcher’s meeting. And, when I…
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Read more: A second chanceToday we’re living long lives—long enough to give most of us a second chance, explained Anna Quindlen, author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs, during…
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Read more: YesterdayFor Bela, who was four years old, yesterday “was a receptacle for anything her mind stored,” writes Jhumpa Lahiri in her book The Lowland. It…