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Read more: The manly Mr. RogersMr. Rogers showed us what it means to be a neighbor—and also what it means to be a man, writes David Roark in the June…
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Read more: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?Fred Rogers believed everyone “has inherent dignity,” writes Alissa Wilkinson on Vox. The new documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” succeeds, Wilkinson says, “on the…
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Read more: The celebrity version of yourselfToo often we fear revealing ourselves as flawed, writes Ana Marie Cox in the June 13, 2018, issue of The Dallas Morning News. We create…
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Read more: 100 years of suffrageIn 1918, 100 years ago, the United Kingdom granted property-owning British women the right to vote. It took another decade before the women in that…
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Read more: Miss America in an evening gown“As long as Miss America requires contestants to look good in an evening gown while strutting in high-heeled shoes, it’s unlikely women in the United…
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Read more: Miss America without her swimsuitThe Miss America pageant is scrapping the swimsuit competition, according to an article in the June, 6, 2018, issue of The Dallas Morning News. “We…
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Read more: A new book clubI helped organize my book club—The Easy Readers—more than 30 years ago. This summer I’m joining a new book club. It’s a Girl Scout book…
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Read more: A party marooned by a shipwreckFamilies—all families—are complicated and rarely perfectly behaved. As Jono explains in Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: “It never takes longer than a few minutes,…
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Read more: Friends and familiesI bought a small pottery dish inscribed with these words for my friend’s birthday present: “Friends are the families we choose.” While I was fishing…
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Read more: Flowers and blue skiesI found this bit of wisdom in an article about “mindfulness” in a Weight Watchers’ publication. “Above the clouds the sky is always blue.” My…