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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Though often attributed to either Florynce Kennedy or Gloria Steinem, Steinem herself elaborated the provenance of this quotation in a 2006 Boston Globe interview: “You know who said that? Years ago [1971], I was in a taxi in Boston or Cambridge. There was an old Irish woman taxi driver. Flo Kennedy, the civil rights activist,…
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GEM Centennial Day
George Edward Murphy, DDS 22 April 1922-25 April 2002 Best of dads, dentists, friends, sons, husbands, grandfathers, U.S. Army veterans, Beloved by all lucky enough to know you. Rest in peace on this your centennial birthday.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future, too.
How do you, Dear Reader, respond to the seashore? Matthew Arnold heard there “the eternal note of sadness”—like my mother and paternal grandfather as I recall. For Arnold, “the turbid ebb and flow / Of human misery” evoked a thought all too resonant for our present time: . . . we are here as…
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wand’ring steps and slow
Spring has not yet arrived at 43 degrees north latitude to the extent this host of golden daffodils from 2021 displays. Still, this blogger, untutored in a medium so many others have mastered, in this her maiden post hopes their cheering presence will shed some grace on this enterprise. Harvard’s Arthur Brooks touts the “crystallized…
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