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Remember, Remember, the Dead in November 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- November 13, 2025
As November sucks the color from the landscape and wind stirs the crackling leaves of the graveyards into little flurries, I stand under swaying pine branches, surrounded by headstones, and offer a few prayers. The cemetery is wrapped in a sacred stillness and silence, the kind of silence that surrounds mysteries too deep for words.
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Teaching the Past to Restore Hope for the Future 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, History, MomThink, Western Civilization
- November 11, 2025
Recent chatter on social media featured a young woman telling her story of how political developments in the United States encouraged her to flee her home country and settle in Costa Rica. But Costa Rica wasn’t the paradise she envisioned. With the value of hindsight, she has come to feel the absence of the blessings and benefits
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The Essential Ingredient for a Happy Life 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Philosophy, Religion
- November 10, 2025
Moving day is fast approaching for me, and until yesterday I was fretting about logistics. Boxes for packing up my books have been hard to come by, and I was stressing over who I could ask to help with the actual move. One friend was available, but another is recovering from surgery, while my middle
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Reading Aloud Isn’t Just for Kids 0
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- November 7, 2025
On my honeymoon, my husband and I began reading J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring” aloud to each other as we drove. Some may deem that a nerdy way of spending one’s newlywed days, but we enjoyed it, and our enjoyment led us to read through the entire “Lord of the Rings” trilogy within
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Making Sense of Millennial Mid-Life Muddling 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Western Civilization
- November 5, 2025
In Rebecca Serle’s novel “In Five Years,” narrator and protagonist Dannie Cohan follows the path she set for herself as an adolescent. She becomes a lawyer with no ambitions for the courtroom, tackling instead the crisp, clear language of the law and contracts. “It was like poetry, but poetry with outcome, poetry with concrete meaning—with
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Why We Need to Recognize Entertainment’s Hidden Messages 0
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Family, Featured, MomThink, Western Civilization
- November 3, 2025
“I’m just not affected by it.” This statement captures the common attitude toward entertainment today. More often than not, we think that what we consume on our screens is harmless and detached from our values or behavior. But is it? “We become what we behold,” the saying – often attributed to Marshall McLuhan, a philosopher
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