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One of the advantages of reading multiple books at one time is that every so often the stories collide to affect and influence each other. This happened several times to me this year. I would love to say that it is part of some larger...

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Social media allows us to be both connected and distant. This is a beautiful thing if you are raising children across the country from your friends and family. But, it has proven disastrous for interacting with people who are (religiously, ethnically, culturally, politically) different from...

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I remember several years ago walking through a Barnes & Noble and thinking, “Do these people not know about the library?” I guess I may be a bit of an outlier, but I have always loved the library. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE book...

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