Tag: The New York Times
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Of History Lessons, The Pursuit of Happiness and Choice …
Assisting our eight grader with her American History lessons has called me to revisit the United States’ Declaration of the Independence, of which the second paragraph states, “ … We hold these truths self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are…
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Of Senior Pictures, Former Eastern Block Countries, and Forgotten Anniversary Cards…
The summer has whisked by. One day it was May 31st and our middle was finishing what had been their eleventh grade year–they were a high school junior–and two days later we were listening to a message left by the school photographer stating that senior pictures would be made the following week and leaving the…