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It's a beautiful moonlit night in Sri Lanka and it's your turn to entertain your new friends around the bonfire. Rick Brooks surprised himself.
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Traveling's a real gift for a couple Rick Brooks meets over ice cream cones.
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Reduce, reuse, recycle, restore — Rick Brooks revisits two little letters that are doing remarkable things.
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I woke up at 1:15 in the morning and reached for something boring to read so I could go back to sleep. It was a mistake. The book I found was The…
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Since her divorce from the richest man in the world, MacKenzie Scott has done something unusual. She pledged to give “the majority of her fortune back to…
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When you visit Princeton, Illinois these days you’re likely to see a mural on Main Street that says “Be Like Lovejoy,” and you might wonder… what it’s all…
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If you’re like me, you probably having a hard time changing the idea of social distancing into a habit. That’s not easy. Old habits die hard.Why don’t we…
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Does it make you sad that so many small towns are struggling? Do you get angry that online businesses don’t pay their share of property and sales taxes,…
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Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old who spoke recently at the United Nations summit on climate change, couldn’t hide her sadness and frustration. “We are in…
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50 years ago, most of us graduating seniors at Beloit College didn't have any idea where we would be and what we would be like at the 50th reunion of the…