Over the summer my eleven-year-old daughter read a contemporary piece of young adult “literature.” This is not a genre I enjoy, but I read the work with her so that we could discuss it together. “Was it a good book?” I asked. “Yes!” she answered. “Why?” I followed up. “Because I liked it.” As I […]
While Americans have been bemoaning the loss of “sir” and “ma’am” for forty years now, these greetings are not entirely absent from American society. Like most Americans with a car and a blue blazer, the poor and homeless regularly ask me for money. On street corners, they ask with signs. In parking lots and gas
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