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Category: The Examined Life

I’m fascinated by cultural trends and generational shifts. Will knows this, and brought home this highly quotable line from a

Last week we took our dog to church. The Episcopal church follows the lectionary, and the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

We’ve been half-heartedly searching for a new kitchen table for months. Our old one (visible in this instagram shot) was

I was surprised to learn from the comments of the recent post about my go-to cookbooks that not everyone is

I can’t remember who brought it to my attention, or why, but this year I’ve been working hard on accepting

I’ve had a post bumping around in my head for a while now about trigger points: I’m talking about those metaphorical buttons

This is the story I tell most about my grandfather. After he retired from sitting on the bench, my grandfather donated

School started two weeks ago around here. Even though my kids aren’t starting until after Labor Day, we’re in transition

I gave you a short review of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln in the August twitterature post,

We were lucky to have houseguests this week—family members who live much too far away, whom we don’t see nearly often

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