If you are of a “certain age,” search the internet for a recording of two 2024 Grammy Award Performances—Billy Joel and Joni Mitchell. I’m not suggesting you do so because you may have listened to their music back in high school (like I did), but because their performances provided a powerful reminder that you’re never […]
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Pain. It’s unpleasant and, more often than not, challenging to experience. Yet, pain often provides an opportunity to grow and learn. At least, that’s been my most recent painful experience. On June 4, I did a faceplant while hiking. My toe hit a rock, and I fell straight forward, cutting my lip and nose and
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Every year I watch the Kentucky Derby. I’m not much for the pageantry, but I love to see the young racehorses, hear their stories, and watch them run for the roses. It’s an exciting and sometimes heartbreaking sport. To be honest, I’m a thoroughbred lover. I owned and rode several thoroughbred horses when I was
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I blame others—more often than I care to admit. For example, I blame my fear of people leaving on my father, who died when I was seven. I blame my feelings of inadequacy as a writer on my mother, who told me I couldn’t earn a living as a novelist. But if I can blame
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Like many people around the world, I’ve been watching the Winter Olympics. I’ve been struck by the skaters in particular, who have had a number of falls. It’s easy to sit back in my living room chair and criticize them for making mistakes and “blowing their big opportunity,” but I know how hard it is
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I’ve been thinking a lot about teachers lately. In Pirkei Avot, the Ethics of Our Fathers: Chapter 1, Mishna 6, “Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Perachya says, ‘Make for yourself a teacher and acquire for yourself a friend, and judge each person favorably.” Leaving the latter part of this teaching for another time, I’ll focus on the first
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