Matter

We yearn to do something big, all because we want our time in life to matter.

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Reflections on America While in Paris

When I consider how personally relaxed I felt in one of the most densely populated cities in the world, I have to wonder what it was that was so pleasingly foreign to me, other than the language.

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Main Street’s Acceptance of Gay Marriage: Did it cost the Village?

The gay community has won, but will the vibrant, proud culture now slip away into the conformity of America’s Main Street?

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The Same For Better or For Worse

Marriage is not for everybody, but the choice should be available to anyone who wants to commit to another person.

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When the Pickle Drops: New Year’s Symbols

All around the world, people congregate in large squares to share a sense of space and time. It is the unity of those that are living that we celebrate and definitely a noble task to toast a friend and stranger.

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The Old World and the New

Reunions are a kind of manufactured intergenerational reuniting of peoples thrown about by the American experience.We are all linked because we all come from the same mark of an illiterate man’s pen. Suddenly we are a community in a place where everyone is responsible for minding each other’s children.

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