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Someone recently told me, when complaining about the overreach of federal mandates, most specifically phasing out gas stoves in new construction among other ideas, that these types of changes ought …
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By LAURIE STUART
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5/2/25
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For a long time, I did not think of the Earth as an evolving living entity. It was constant. The weather was constant.
As a kid, I spent a lot of time outside. I worked as a YMCA camp …
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By Laurie Stuart
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3/21/25
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There's a lot to love.
Ideas, concepts, pets, children, spouses, friends, the landscape, the river, a garden, a warm house, a neighbor, a mentor, a minister or priest, a co-worker, our …
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By LAURIE STUART
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2/14/25
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In the early days, we typed the copy for the newspaper on my Selectric typewriter that I received as a high school graduation gift. From there we pasted it with rubber cement onto large "flats," …
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By LAURIE STUART
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1/10/25
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Chosen before the November 5 election, I turned to the wisdom of Etty Hillesum. While her diaries were not widely distributed as Anne Frank, her writing spoke to her deepening wisdom as she …
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By LAURIE STUART
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11/8/24
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We all need to know about our community. It makes for better decisions. A common set of facts makes for better community cohesion.
Local community newspapers, which are focused on the …
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4/12/24
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Some things never change.
It's easy to be the fool.
It's easy to be fooled. It's easy to have your life upended by events beyond your control.
And it's easy to draw conclusions from …
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4/5/24
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Lilly Pulitzer started a fruit juice stand because she needed a renewed sense of purpose.
She had moved to Palm Beach, Florida in search of love and adventure and immediately embraced …
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By LAURIE STUART
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3/29/24
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I was in my garden last Sunday afternoon. I was pulling a yucca plant that I mistakenly planted in one of my garden beds years ago. At the time, I was mixing flowers and veggies in one of my …
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By LAURIE STUART
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3/22/24
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Ask anyone, especially my family, that my memory of names of bands, movie plots and actors, and books I've read is spotty. It's almost laughable, according to my son.
At the same time, I …
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3/15/24
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The quotes we choose tell others something about us.
I found this quote as I was exploring quotes using a search query of notable quotes by women.
With that I discovered Chimamanda Ngozi …
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By LAURIE STUART
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3/8/24
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Until this week, I had never heard of Cynthia Heimel.
Her Wikipedia page describes her as a columnist and foremost the author of satirical books known for their unusual titles, aimed at a female …
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3/1/24
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I am struck that sometimes when we determine the price of something, we don't factor in all of the costs.
With a background in sociology, W.E.B. DuBois seemed to have a fundamental …
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By LAURIE STUART
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2/23/24
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It's good to know that we don't have to be perfect to be loveable.
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By LAURIE STUART
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2/16/24
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I encountered the life and legacy of Rev. Howard Thurman in seminary. It was there that I learned that Thurman was the direct link between Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
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By LAURIE STUART
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2/9/24
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Richard Kluger seems to like to sink his teeth into complex subjects and set them in terms of sweeping societal concepts.
His two best-known works are Simple Justice , generally regarded as the …
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By LAURIE STUART
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2/2/24
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I first became acquainted with Dorothy Day as part of a seminary course on religious social activists. Beyond her work as a co-founder and editor of …
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By LAURIE STUART
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1/26/24
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