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Being oblivious
I am impressed by how oblivious I can be to my surroundings. For example, several times over the years, my wife has said, “You didn’t m...
Adding words to the dictionary
This year, 14,000 words were added to the Merriam-Webster English language dictionary. The dictionary already has about 470,000 entries...
Being a leader
On this day (September 19) 240 years ago, George Washington gave his farewell address as he stepped down at the end of his second term ...
Ending food insecurity
One of the more remarkable gains in this country has been the reduction, over the last 100 years, in the number of people living in pov...
Being worthy
I had a conversation with a colleague last week. He was facing a form of mid-life crisis and struggling.
He felt that he was a failu...
Making leftovers
In high school and college, I had part-time jobs as a cook. I worked on the graveyard shift at a local 24-hour coffee shop, and I was a...