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It took me watching a whole lot of 2023 college commencement addresses lately to find one…
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When we walked off the Quad some 40 years ago as graduates of Wake Forest University,…
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“So Sportface, what tune would you like to hear?” asks Arnold Bradley Fagg to Sportface while…
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Evil in the World Addressing the subject of evil, Larry offers a comforting explanation for why…
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Money is Unfulfilling Throughout the book, the narrator and Isabel plead unsuccessfully with Larry to focus…
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Staring at my laptop computer screen, I see ants crawling along as if I don’t know…
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