Every morning I’m up before dawn, enjoying some coffee on my front porch, and thanking my Maker for another day – I’ve reached the age where that gratitude is heartfelt. Two or three times a day, I play a couple of games of solitaire. Often, I’ll read a few pages from some book I know
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There’s an old Yiddish proverb that says, “Mann tracht, un Gott lacht,” which translates, “Man plans, and God laughs.” Woody Allen rehabbed it for his audiences: “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” My plans over a long life have surely provoked gales of laughter from the Almighty. In college, I changed
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Mark Zuckerberg thinks you don’t have enough friends. Yes, the king of that behemoth we all know and – ahem – love as Facebook has identified a serious problem in the lives of Americans and, never fear, is here to help. His solution? AI friends. The average American has around three friends but would prefer
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“Don’t get married until your ‘brain is fully developed’ – after 25.” “Don’t get married until you ‘travel the world.’” “Don’t get married until you get a master’s degree, then a PhD, then study abroad.” “Don’t get married until you date around and ‘figure out what you want.’” “Don’t get married until you ‘find
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Author Sarah Wilder published an article on this site last week titled, “BookTok and the Destruction of Literature,” lamenting a TikTok trend among mostly female readers who share an obsessive fascination with sexually explicit fantasy novels. “The decline in reading in America is a troubling fact,” notes Wilder, an avid reader of classic literature, “so a social
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Habemus papam! We have a pope! Like other Catholics in the U.S. and around the world, I was stunned that the conclave of cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel on May 8 chose American Robert Prevost to become the next pope. For years, we’d heard that no American, at least in the foreseeable future, would
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