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I live in a nice house with a nice lawn, in a nice subdivision and am comfortably upper middle class. My wife and I have both worked hard to have what we…
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I clearly remember stories I heard as a kid from my older relatives about living through the Great Depression. The over-arching lesson I took from those…
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As I record this perspective, it is now day four of our school district’s shut down because of COVID-19, and I’m about stark raving loony for two…
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2020 has not started off well for my wife, Wendy. Not long after New Year’s, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She did not court this: cancer does not…
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As I write this on the first day of 2020, I’m not certain that a “Happy New Year” is in order. This new year has a good chance of becoming what I would…
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A few days ago, I posed this question to my students: “How much could another person come to know about you by both looking through your phone and knowing…
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A few weeks ago, our staff took 115 8th graders to the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie as part of a unit on discrimination I’ve been teaching. As we…
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I’m writing and recording this perspective in my home office that is illuminated with five LED light bulbs. In fact, save for one, every single light…
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Forty-five years ago this month, President Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace. Nixon is a fascinating study in complexities and…
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A few weeks ago, when I was driving in Northern Virginia visiting Civil War battlefield sites, I happened across a sign for James Madison's home,…