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My senior year of high school was full. Full of athletics, friendships, trips, and poignant goodbyes. There would have been a cost to losing that time. That cost is now being paid by the students of our nation, as well as other nations, that suddenly find themselves studying from home with the possibility of not…

Some things we love instantly and passionately. Others grow up more imperceptibly to become a dominant favorite. David McCullough is the latter. While I have moved the majority of my library to E-books, I still own the first paper book of his I read, 1776. I just finished Mornings on Horseback, a biography limited to…

Chesterton once said something along the lines that with all the people making prophecies (in his day), every once in a while one of them was bound to get something right. Well, dire predictions have been made. Those who don’t look into these things may be thinking that the end of the world has come…

In the (not great) movie “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” (based on a popular novel I have not read) there is a scene where big bad guy has commandeered the titular “home” and gives the “peculiar children” an order. Despite his mastery of the situation, Miss Peregrine reprimands him for speaking to those in…

I was at Sam’s club 2 Wednesday ago picking up some coffee and I noticed that about 80% of the carts around me contained toilet paper. I thought those people were kinda crazy and definitely over-reacting. Fast forward a week and I’m back at Sam’s club, wandering through the aisles to see what’s sold out.…