Imagine you are strolling along your downtown sidewalks. To your left you see a vacant lot overrun with weeds. The street to your right isn’t safe and needs to be avoided. A fellow across the block is using hard drugs in broad daylight. There are loads of shuttered buildings and, besides you, very little foot
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My grandfather attended a one-room schoolhouse as a child, although he sometimes was thrown out for smelling like the skunks he pulled from his trapping route on the way to school. He made some good money checking his traps on the path to and from school, paid by Sears, Roebuck and Co. for the pelts
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Human innovation, if the last 200 years are any indication, appears limitless. The slow ascent of technological progress has soared exponentially upward. We could only have produced such amazing results because of our infinite capacity for curiosity about the world around us. If this is true, then why could Thomas Aquinas, widely acknowledged both inside
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There’s been a lot of chatter in recent weeks about the new movie “Project Hail Mary.” With a tone of pleasant surprise, both average folks and critics have noted that, for once, Hollywood produced a decent, enjoyable film. I haven’t joined the throngs attending “Project Hail Mary,” so I can’t comment on whether I agree
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I recently met a woman in the coffee shop I normally frequent. Her story touched my imagination and I thought it might inspire others as well, especially millennials and Gen Xers. Bernadette Hannegan was born on Scotland’s Shetland Islands, growing up with two brothers, a sister, and a crowd of good friends. There she attended
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Ever since it flew from the page to the screen in 2019, the crass and explicit action/comedy television satire, “The Boys,” has tried to hold a critical mirror up to elements of modern, American society. To its credit, it often hones in on some dysfunctional, perennially problematic flaw of human nature, and, because of its
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