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Laura de Jong

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The End of the Story

If you heard the faint sound of collective weeping last Tuesday, and weren’t sure how to account for it, wonder no more. What you heard

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Blisters

The joke turned on me with a rather stunning swiftness. My brother and I had just set out on a three-day hike of the Mdaabii

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Let’s Argue it Out

I asked my boyfriend what I should write about this week. “Communication,” he joked. “How obnoxious men are. How relationships require so much work.” I

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Look Lower

Sometimes all it takes is one sentence in a commentary to set the direction for a sermon. Last week it was this sentence from Bill

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Gezellig

There are some words in the Dutch language that just can’t be translated properly into English. Benauwd. Verklempt. Voorpret. And gezellig (pronounced phlegm-ze-li-phlegm). Gezellig is

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Falling Objects

Last month it was the Suez Boat crisis that captured my imagination. I told you that once Louie, my Facebook algorithm, noticed that I’d clicked

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