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The ability to make music has been one of the great blessings of my life. I have played the violin since the age of eight and have sung in my parish choir for a number of years, and have always found music to be, not an embellishment to life, but an integral part of it.
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When does the madness end? Every morning brings some new online story of sexual insanity. In Britain, a man undergoing a hysterectomy and a metoidioplasty, an operation giving him a penis, had his vagina removed without his consent. The two doctors treating him were temporarily suspended for this operation. Apparently, they figured if he was to be
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A friend of mine recently bemoaned the fact that people only ever tell her how difficult parenting is. Since she is expecting her first child, such “friendly advice” isn’t the most encouraging thing to hear. Unfortunately, discouraging words about raising children aren’t all that out of the ordinary, a fact writer Lucy Huber addresses in
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The nation’s two major public-school teachers’ unions may be rivals of sorts, but they apparently are in agreement on at least one important and troubling matter. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, the presidents of these two organizations placed an ad in newspapers across the country, labeling it a “message to our students.” Signed
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GQ magazine held its 25th “Men of the Year” event in London last Wednesday. Talents from across the fields of culture, sports, and entertainment gathered for the glitzy gala celebrating the British men’s style magazine’s honorees for Men of the Year. Curiously, over a third of the personalities on that list were women. Of the
READ MOREFor children, Fall is a time of new beginnings. A new school year begins, fall baseball or football practices start, and everything that happened last year becomes the foundation of new possibility. I’ve encouraged a family tradition with my three boys that we refer to as Manly Movie Night. The theme of it is fairly simple: we
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