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Talking is not the same as writing. But since more people talk than write, those of us who write have to adapt. So we try. When others take...

A friend offered me a portion of the large, flat sesame cookie he had just purchased from a Muslim family who makes them to sell at the mar...

With age comes wisdom . . . in theory. In reality, I often just find myself repeating the same situation, always hoping for a different out...

It was 1999 at the beginning of another school year. As all three of my boys have September birthdays, Gabriel was almost 7; Ariel was almo...

Folded and almost flat lay the small flat rate box in my otherwise empty mailbox. For a moment I hesitated to take it out. My mind was quic...

To take something personally means "to interpret a remark or action as directed against oneself and be upset or offended by it, even i...

The first day I walked into my new teaching position at the group home for adults with severe and profound developmental disabilities, I wo...