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I’m beginning the New Year with a clean office. It seems a good place to start, a practical way to set me up for any other resolutions I make.
My office used to be meticulous.
Early in …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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12/31/19
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Robert May was painfully aware of the distance between his dreams and his reality.
The 34-year-old Dartmouth graduate had long fantasized about writing the great American novel. Instead, he was …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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12/4/19
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It’s become a four-generation tradition to head south of the cities and take in a small-town celebration of fall. Our route winds between soaring bluffs and a shimmering lake. It feels like a …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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11/6/19
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I was a sophomore in college when I received the little blue book, a gift from a friend who also wanted to be a writer. At the time I was editing the …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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10/9/19
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W
e ate our honey. We ate a lot. Now we have no honey in our honey pot.”
With those 17 words, averaging just three letters in length, Jan and Stan Berenstain launched their legendary book …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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8/28/19
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Business was good. So good, in fact, that the family company had become one of the largest breweries in New England, producing 300,000 barrels a year and supporting two generations of Geisels in …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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7/31/19
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There is an art and a science to slow living. This summer I’m trying to learn both.
In music you can measure it. The tempo called largo—Italian for slow and broad—clocks in at 40 …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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7/3/19
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More than 19 million people tuned in to watch the final episode of “Game of Thrones” May 19, making it the most viewed show to ever air on HBO.
Yet many were dissatisfied with …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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6/5/19
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Wife Returned After Having Fine Funeral.”
The headline of a 483-word story in the March 15, 1904 edition of The New York Times bore a sly nod to Tom Sawyer. A man named Ignacio …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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5/22/19
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hen Pope Francis talks about evangelization, his poster child may well be an immigrant in North Dakota.
Sister Brenda Hernandez Valdes, a 34-year-old Daughter of Immaculate Mary of Guadalupe, …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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4/11/19
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When David Brooks travels the country, he seeks out the good news. The bad news is all too easy to find.
As a New York Times columnist writing about the social sciences, Brooks logs many miles for …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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3/13/19
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All afternoon I had been hunkered over my MacBook, perched above a frozen lake …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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2/13/19
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I’ve always appreciated the notion of self-care in an Oprah Winfrey, hot-baths-and-expensive-chocolates kind of way. We work so hard, the thinking goes, that we deserve a break here and there. So …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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1/2/19
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It all started with a lost birth certificate. The Holy Spirit was at work that day and hasn’t slowed down since.
My aunt Jan has always known she was adopted, and the many mysteries surrounding …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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12/5/18
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Roxanne Loper was almost home.
Her journey had begun 15 months earlier when she spotted a picture of a baby girl on the World Partners website and sensed something special.
She and her husband, …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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11/7/18
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I’ve been emailing my friend Becky, a newspaper editor in South Dakota, about our growing desire to unplug. We used to compare notes on …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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8/29/18
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Janet Easter is experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions as she arranges a bouquet in her backyard, and she is unfazed.
“I’m having contractions, which is hilarious,” she says, stripping …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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8/1/18
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The numbers don’t look good for the U.S. Postal Service. Last year it reported its sixth straight annual operating loss, in the amount of $2.7 billion. During fiscal year 2017, the USPS delivered …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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7/4/18
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The big news from the Social Security Administration is the ousting of a champion: Liam has dethroned Noah as the nation’s most popular boy name. That was the headline of its newly released …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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6/7/18
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When Oprah Winfrey was first asked the question, the talk-show queen was left tongue-tied.
She was doing a live television interview with the late film critic Gene Siskel to promote her film …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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5/10/18
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