Raise your hand if someone close to you – friend, relative, co-worker – has been personally touched by divorce. Sadly, I’ve been able to raise my hand for all three at certain points of my life, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you can as well. Perhaps you’ve even been divorced yourself. The prevalence of
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is under fire for a viral clip from an event with Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk. In the clip, Leavitt tells a young woman in the crowd that she should pursue both motherhood and a career because “actually being a mom and having a family and having a job, it
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At approximately 6:35 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, Artemis II roared off its Florida launchpad on its 10-day journey to the moon and back again. Carrying a team of three men and a woman, Artemis was the first manned flight to the moon in 53 years. Hundreds of thousands from around the country and the world gathered
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Although it is a recent phenomenon, global immediacy is skewing our sense of justice. The distance between countries is now bridged by our smartphones and we’re becoming a culture able to rattle off foreign leaders while clueless about the names of our own local mayors. The hyperconnectivity of the 21st century keeps us tuned in
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Recently I revisited a famous antiquarian bookshop. Marks & Co. closed decades ago, but it lives on in Helene Hanff’s memoir “84, Charing Cross Road” and its companion 1987 film starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins. My library had both the book and the DVD, so I spent an evening traveling back in time to 1950s London
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The literary arts are predicated on the possibility of transformation and rebirth. As every first-year creative writing student knows, fiction is about the possibility of soul-change – that’s what makes it interesting to us. Great stories reveal how the events of the plot reshape the interior life of the character, developing and changing the character.
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