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“The best reappraisals are born in the worst crisis. It has happened to all of us in relative degrees. Be glad for it and don’t be afraid of being afraid.” –from Marlon Brando to ex-lover Marilyn Monroe in a telegram on February 1961, after she had been hospitalized for nervous collapse and breakdown.

Last Sunday the Chattering clan gathered at my in-laws’ suburban home to celebrate the birthday of Mr. Chattering’s father Martin. Near the table was a vat of caffeine-free, sugar-free Diet Coke. As our eleven-year-old son lunged for that bottle like a man stranded on a desert isle, I calmly asked my mother-in-law what else she…

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” –E.B. White

Are you a morning person? I pretty much am, which is to say I wake up hungry, filled with curiosity about the weather, eager to roll up the blinds. Mr. Chattering and I have a running disagreement over whether people who are not morning people are born that way and forever stuck needing coffee OR…
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