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Giving thanks: it is the premise of our Thanksgiving holiday, expressing our appreciation for the abundance of family, food, creature comforts, life. We gather around a lad …

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Growing up is at the core of so many of my friendships—whether that growing up was as a kid, a college student, a new parent, a young employee launching a career, or as a …

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Some years ago, I ran into the mother of my college boyfriend, and she told me that she still had a coffee mug I’d given her 25 years earlier. The cup bore the slogan “Don’ …

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I stood on the sidewalk in front of the little brick church down the block and, using a camera with the telephoto lens, snapped photo after photo of young robins nesting o …

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Sitting in a local diner on a rainy spring day, I dive a fork into my egg, and the golden yolk spreads across my plate. It’s the color of sunshine, a reminder on this chill …

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As a child, I once found a four-leaf clover. My father told me I had the luck of the Irish, and I believed him. As an adult, something made me think of finding …

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