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Sholeh Patrick
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Did Founders favor religion in schools?
History offers clues, but clear conclusions are few
Life is brew-tea-ful
I try to work continually on self-awareness. Knowing what triggers feelings, mood, or a chain of thoughts and, more to the point, consciously controlling my re…
Poverty closer than it used to be
Eleven million American children, or about 1 in 7 kids, live in poverty. Most were born to it. Statistics say their children will be more likely to experience the same.
Do you feel safe?
The gap between what we complain about and what’s actually a problem seems to be widening.
Are we eating plastic?
A bag sits in our laundry room filled with empty plastic. I’ve been trying to choose more products sold sustainably, but it’s hard to avoid plastic anymore bec…
Christmas isn’t over ‘til the water’s blessed
In a quiet corner of Tampa Bay at the Fournos Bakery - or any of the other four bakery-cum-coffee-shops within a 10-block radius – the shop owner and customers…
Journal your new year
Time flows without sentiment. Yet every Dec. 31, we take note of it with big fanfare: Out with the old, in with the new. A fresh start full of good intentions.
Six holiday traditions, village style
On Christmas Eve in the quiet town of Arlington, Vt. — the state’s first capital — the town’s 2,400 residents have a sweet tradition (Vermonters love to say, "…
Words of the year: Real or Memorex?
That headline is rather unfair to younger readers, but those of a “certain age” undoubtedly remember the cassette brand commercials: Is it real, or is it Memor…
Reining in AI, top-down
Technology is always a mixed blessing. Develop it unchecked by a sense of ethics, and we’ve learned it costs too much in human health, equanimity, or safety.
Can you outthink a goldfish?
We all know it by now: The average person today reads less and has a much shorter attention span. Taken together, that doesn’t bode well for man’s ability to t…
Could quiet hours make us smarter?
“Noise” so pervades modern life that it’s become inescapable. We hardly know what it’s like anymore without a cacophony of noise, chatter, and moving images — …
Anastrophe, it is
Pleased, she is, when your Mrs. Language Person notes the anastrophe so rare. Delights, she does, when our language so diminished may delight in its creativity…
Want to see 100? Get blue
In case you missed the Oct. 12 column by Geoff Emry, Coeur d’Alene’s self-styled “exercise explorer M.D.,” let me tell you about blue zones.
Honor the hallowed witch
I have mixed feelings as I write this. Our family thrives at Halloween, at the best time of year. Spirits and magic evoke the season’s beautiful mysteries: Of …
The rules of war
As the world watches two high-profile wars unfold, heartbreaking civilian costs are mounting. Sadly this is nothing new in the human experience, but today’s mo…