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E.B. White & Winding the Clock

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Of late things have been hard. 

My heart is broken. Broken again, for the 3477th time this life.

"Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time," wrote E. B. White, to a despairing Mr. Nadeau. The actual first paragraph of White's letter said:

"As long as there is one upright man..."

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The Gottman Institute: The Art & Science of Love

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Two days of extraordinary learning at the Gottman Institute workshop. The first day focused on building the ground of being of love through Drs. John and Julie Gottman's research-based techniques. The second day addressed conflict and techniques for repair after regrettable incidents.

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Factual Error in The New Yorker: Is this how fake news starts?

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Author Traci L. Slatton writes about how The New Yorker misquoted her husband sculptor Sabin Howard, creating a factual error. Dedicated to all the women whose ideas have been misattributed to a man and who were told to leave it be and not to rock the boat.

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The Prom

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The Prom. Last night my step-daughter and oldest daughter went to their prom. There were the usual concerns in the breathless anticipatory hours: dress...

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