Category: Blog

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No easy cure

A year ago this week I said goodbye to Boston and moved to Nashville. Of the many Boston memories that continue to steep in my

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Little Obsessions

I have endured some condescending eyerolling this week, aimed my way because I showed moderate interest in the birth of the royal baby. The two

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It’s a story I never tired of telling, and it happened just last week–well, July 15, 1838 (and, no, I haven’t been telling it for

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Space Equals Money

In New York City space equals money. Let me offer two examples that surprised this Midwestern transplant. I am a frequent coffee shop attender. In

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Don’t Get It

A time or two in the past here on The Twelve I have mused a bit about the lack of civility in society today.  I

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Best Names in the Game

Knowing that Shin Soo-Choo is playing the outfield in Cincinnati makes it easier for me gather the strength to face the world each day. Soo-Choo

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orthodox hot dogs

For the past two weeks my family and I have been hanging out in Grand Rapids where I’ve been immersed in a seminar discussing Eastern

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Telling History

On the road yet again this week, this time in St. Louis for a conference on early American history. On the way down we stopped

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