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  • My Letter To Greta: Some Questions and a Piece of Advice

    My Letter To Greta: Some Questions and a Piece of Advice0

    Dear Greta Thunberg, Congratulations on making the cover of Time and being named “Person of the Year.” That’s quite an achievement for a person your age. Though I had followed you online by reading a few articles, the Time honor led me to look more deeply into your background. That investigation left me with some

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  • My Kindergartner Was Told Trump Was Going to Kill ‘All the Girls in the U.S.’

    My Kindergartner Was Told Trump Was Going to Kill ‘All the Girls in the U.S.’0

    Yesterday afternoon I received an email from the dean of my 5-year-old daughter’s school. When I saw my little girl’s name in the subject line, my first thought was that she had said something naughty. (She’s a goofball and recently discovered scatological humor.) But that wasn’t the case. Kelly and Jonathan, Just wanted to let

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  • My Kids Don’t Eat Organic. Here’s Why

    My Kids Don’t Eat Organic. Here’s Why0

    Last summer my family joined a CSA (short for Community Supported Agriculture). We buy a share of a farm’s output over the season, pay up front, and receive a box of fruits and vegetables every week throughout the spring, summer and early fall. Part of our share includes picking a certain amount of fruits and

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  • My Fourth of July: Hope for America

    My Fourth of July: Hope for America0

    My Fourth of July began when I placed six small American flags at intervals along the sidewalk of the front porch of my daughter’s house. As I pushed the flagpoles into the grass, I thought of my deceased wife, who had purchased these and other American flags, and who for years had decorated the lawn

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  • My Favorite Patriotic Recipes for Independence Day

    My Favorite Patriotic Recipes for Independence Day5

    Independence Day is just around the corner! I’m planning to celebrate with a feast. What better things to cook than classic American recipes? Much of what we think of as “American food” actually comes from Western Europe where the majority of immigration to our country originated. Most of the immigrants were poor, simple, and hardy,

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  • My Family Fled Communism When I Was 6. Now We Fear Our Nightmare Has Followed Us Here

    My Family Fled Communism When I Was 6. Now We Fear Our Nightmare Has Followed Us Here0

    Following the State of the Union address, I found the state of the nation surreal. I kept skimming past articles about the Democratic Party’s proposed economic stimulus packages, collectively known as the Green New Deal. They propose to fund unsustainable sectors like solar panels—which are already heavily government-backed—by targeting more self-sufficient industries, like meat production.

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