Look for the tender part hiding beneath the armor. That’s where you’ll find the love and the care that’s too big to have a word. Altogether different from Mom’s, it feels at first more settled, less frantic. But when you live with it long enough and if you’re charitable, you’ll discover that Dad will never...
Today is the one-year anniversary of my dad’s death. People who have lost loved ones often say, “I think about him every day.” Before losing my father Eugene, I was skeptical. Was it possible to think of someone every day who wasn’t present, someone with whom communication or any other form of interaction never occurred?...
Long ago, more than 2,500 years in the past, the city of Sybaris flourished on the heel of what is now Italy. Situated on a bustling line of Greek trade, Sybaris was where seagoing merchants unloaded their precious cargo for distribution along the Western coast. The customs and tolls from the Greeks’ inexorable enterprise made Sybaris one of the richest towns in the ancient world.
According to the historian Diodorus Siculus, the population of 300,000…
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If you require additional evidence that the presidency of Donald J. Trump poses an existential danger to the United States of America, read The Fifth Risk, the latest work of journalism from popular author Michael Lewis. This short (fewer than 225 pages), easy-to-follow book profiles several dedicated federal employees in various Departments, including Energy, Agriculture and...
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