The Mom Executive Order
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Your mom was right. The government should not have closed schools; you should have been able to breathe and play freely with your friends; the Covid period fear... Read more.
The Story Could Have Happened Anywhere
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Josh Urban’s book, Cities on a Hill: 21 Isolated Months with the Elderly during COVID, was prominently displayed near the front of the store as a welcome anomaly... Read more.
Privacy in Voting Is a Treasure
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At my polling place, I valued my privacy when completing a ballot behind a partition. I have been independent for a long time but couldn’t help but wonder this... Read more.
Go Paint the Porch
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Go ahead and paint the porch, clean the barn, clear the closet, cook the soup, even if you’re depressed and don’t feel like it. You’ll still have all the same... Read more.
The Broken Life of Matthew Thomas Crooks
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Absent from discussions of Crooks’ tragedy are the despair, losses, and mental health crises Covid-era lockdowns caused especially young people; the cruel, vitriolic,... Read more.
Shifting Alliances and Building Tribes
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Is it time to disassemble sides and camps, to intermingle tribes, so we may think more critically and independently, build alliances to grapple with real and substantial... Read more.
Jesus or…Amazon…Loves You
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What could we count on after lockdowns descended? Mainstream churches shuttered doors while the local AA meeting near my house met at a park in the winter. Another... Read more.
What Have We Learned?
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Dissidents and outsiders saved lives and uplifted spirits during this dark period. We found each other and are still finding each other, making new and hopeful alliances.... Read more.
The End of the World at Fort Bragg
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Pharmaceutical companies occupy airwaves. Fat people dance in a town square in an ad for pills to lower blood sugar. Another ad proclaims that a cartoon guy will... Read more.
The Quarantine of Humans and Pets at the Height of Covid Mania
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We were in a time of widespread panic and paranoia after the country, and the world, shut down in March 2020. TV people, politicians, and bureaucrats forbid singing,... Read more.
The Vicious Punishment of CJ Hopkins
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When asked what gives him courage, Freda said, “I look at this as this a spiritual battle. The people who censor are not good people. If they believed in their... Read more.
What It Means to Lose Trust
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Competing truths may be difficult and devastating to accept, as we have been enduring in the last few years, but the pain and cognitive dissonance are most certainly... Read more.