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Read more: Softening my lifeAfter our dog Ginger died, my brother James and his wife Jeany sent us a card with these words: “Dogs love us unconditionally, softening our…
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Read more: Good-bye, GingerOur dog Ginger died. She had a tumor in her bladder in the worst spot possible. Our vet told us last summer that surgery was…
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Read more: Queen Charlotte?It’s unlikely that it ever will happen, but it’s worth mentioning. For the first time in British history, the birth of a baby boy does…
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Read more: Peace and JusticeWhen Mary Turner was brave enough to denounce her husband’s lynching by a rampaging white mob, she, too, was lynched. Then, she was hung upside…
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Read more: Courage calls to courageA bronze statue of Milicent Fawcett now stands outside Britain’s Parliament. It’s the first statue of a woman to stand alongside the statues of 11…
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Read more: Keep walking!I’ve been traveling a bunch—which has interfered with my daily walks. But, I’m walking again—every morning. I recently read an article about Kenneth Cooper, age…
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Read more: Vote!We “can march in knit hats and go to town-hall meetings, but, if everyone voted, things would change,” Cecile Richards, outgoing Planned Parenthood president told…
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Read more: When birth control was illegalI think I knew this, but I was astonished to be reminded by Cecile Richards in her new book that birth control was technically illegal…
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Read more: A dangerous worldAt the Dallas Holocaust Museum, I found this quote: “The world is too dangerous to live in—not because of people who do evil but because…
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Read more: Chimpanzees in the wildIn 1900, there were one million chimpanzees in the wild. Today, according to the Jane Goodall Institute, there are “as few as 340,000.” But, Jane…