It’s snowing in the Midwest and raining (finally, blessed be!) in California. Thanksgiving is behind us and December just around the corner. It’s old hat to say that the year has flown, but—it really did this time! Finding such truisms flying out of my mouth is a real sign of adulthood, I think. But I’ll […]
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This is the time of year when I crave the signs of autumn. I’ve written about the transition into fall ad nauseam, so I will try not to go on about it again. But it’s this Midwestern internal clock that sends me out in search of apple stands and cider mills, trees in shades of […]
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It is easy to think that I understand hunger. I’ve spent most of my career working for nonprofits, I live in a city in which poverty is extremely evident, I am far from wealthy by the standard definition, I have struggled to make ends meet. I have wished, many times, that I could afford better […]
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