A news blurb on back-to-school sales gave me a tough dose of reality the other day. Even though most of the nation is currently in the throes of summer heat and humidity, the truth is that kids will be hitting the books before we know it. According to a 2025 EdChoice survey, 80% of those kids
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Web derives from an Old English word meaning “that which is woven,” referring to fabrics. By 1300, it also meant “a plexus of threads made by spider.” Today, of course, the most common usage refers to the intricate digital web connecting the globe. Every second of every day, that web serves up words and images, links friends
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I remember the backlash against Disney very well. In 2021, when the company launched its Reimagine Tomorrow diversity initiative and pledged that 50% of recurring characters in scripted content would come from underrepresented groups, it was met with a collective sigh. Disney didn’t seem to care about the criticism. They marched headlong into the proverbial abyss. However,
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YouTube/Angel and Wonder ProjectNowadays, if you love going to the movies you must either choose to watch a great film with degenerate themes or a wholesome film that is badly done. Hollywood has the budget for intense action, brilliant acting, and well-written scripts – all very enjoyable if you are willing to ignore the politically-correct
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Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the
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No life lacks disappointment. From the mundane (our favorite sports team loses yet again) to the life-shattering (an unexpected spot on an MRI scan), disappointments punctuate our existence. In politics, religion, finances, relationships, health, we’re forced repeatedly to confront the failure of hopes, the crumbling of visions. “We all break a little when we fall,”
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