
When You Read a Good Book, It Reads You Back
There are lots of reasons to read books, and one of my favorites is the way a good one reflects light back into my own
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There are lots of reasons to read books, and one of my favorites is the way a good one reflects light back into my own

This place is significant to people. Tickets were sold out months in advance. Out-of-state plates lined the surrounding streets.

It’s all about having eyes to see: The tiniest flick of a heel that can unlock a stalemate and send a stadium erupting.

We have all the content that we could ever need. It’s not content but context that matters.

I’m not sure what our boys took away as they fidgeted beside me. But I wonder if the most important words we read are “we”

“There are some people who just make me glad to be alive at the same time as them,” my wife, Hannah, said recently. “Mavis is

If industrial fracking sends pressurized liquid underground to loosen and harvest fossil fuels, “attentional fracking” does the same thing to our minds. Every algorithm trying

For me, this is end-of-day music, music for lawn mowing before sundown, or washing the last of the dishes, or logging back online after the

Our Mennonite friends came from several ethnic backgrounds — Swiss-German, Low German, Russian — with histories of persecution and emigration to Pennsylvania, Virginia, Canadian prairie