Monthly Archives: April 2009

GodsBigBlog: Americans Would Rather Switch Than Fight

Half of Americans polled by the Pew Research Center report that they have changed religious affiliation at least once during their lives.

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A Case of the Human Condition: Feminine, Feminist Pink

Christina likes pink. Given a choice, my five-year-old daughter will take the pink balloon, the pink panties, the pink baseball bat. And Christina likes her pink pink. Cerise, rose, fuchsia – none of the variations on the color pink will do it for her. She wants the real thing, powder puff pink, little girl pink.

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A Case of the Human Condition: When Your Six-Year-Old Wants to Talk Money

My little son Peter likes money. He wants an allowance. Jon and I debated. Fifty cents a week? 75 cents? “Let’s not talk in cents,” said Peter, who is 6 1/2, pushing 7. “Let’s talk in dollars.”

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Writing Room: The Punch Line Always Goes Last

Everyone knows that the punch line goes at the end of a joke, not the beginning. A mystery writer knows to set the story up and get all the necessary events and clues in place before revealing that the pizza delivery guy did it. The same is true of a paragraph and a sentence.

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A Case of the Human Condition: Beauty — What to Do About It

When I encounter something beautiful, I can’t just sit there and be with it. For reasons I don’t understand (yet) I am greedy and grasping when it comes to beauty. I feel the urge to do something about it. Make it last. Make it mine. And so, like a lot of people, I get out the camera and take a picture.

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