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I love this short conversation with Deepak Chopra on how to make the world a better place. His helpful formula can be boiled down to three words: “Transform, Serve, Connect.” Today, let’s just look at the first part: transformation. A lot of people struggle with their own transformation. They may buy something for someone else…

Drop your subscription to Allure and start subscribing to bitch, a magazine that has billed itself as a “feminist response to pop culture” for more than a decade. This publication’s brazen quality may seem off-putting at first if you’re older than 40, and the ads for feminist sex toy shops (catering to all genders and…

When Chattering son number one came down to the planet, I purchased a $30, 12-inch-square blanket deliberately manufactured to be a beloved “bankie” like Linus had in the cartoon strip “Peanuts.” The famous object relations theorist D.W. Winnicottcalled these transitional items “not me” objects. He said they provide many children with early experiences in sensing…

We have a ritual at our house. I should have mentioned it yesterday. Come what may, school be damned, we get our kids (now 10 and 12) to sit through the State of the Union address, significant political debates, and other TV presentations (involving no real blood) that will teach them about America’s political process.…

Al Gore was really the second environmentally-attuned presidential candidate we’d ever had (preceded only by California governor Jerry Brown), but despite the fact that Gore was talking about ecology and the human spirit in the mid 1980s, he wasn’t viewed until recently as an earthy guy. But some twenty years ago, Gore was a keynote…

“Your assertion of nothingness at the end of our mortal lives is no more and no less verifiable than my assertion of somethingness. And yet I do not accuse you of lying–to yourself or to others. I respect your existential choice to face death alone, as a purely material event, leading nowhere but physical decomposition.…

“Human life is a journey whose end is not in sight. Searching, longing and questioning is in our DNA. Who we are and what we will become is determined by the questions that animate us, and by those we refuse to ask. Your questions are your quest. As you ask, so shall you be.” —Sam…

Here’s a lovely old song from World War I that articulates timely sentiments for me: “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier,I brought him up to be my pride and joy.Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder,To shoot some other mother’s darling boy? “Let nations arbitrate their future trouble,It’s time to…

This Sunday’s New York Times article about an alleged “post-abortion syndrome,” got me thinking about a D.C.-based group called The Search For Common Ground. The group, which existed from 1993 to 2000, sponsored a project called The Common Ground Network for Life and Choice (The Network). “The project goal was to change the dynamic of…

“Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn’t. I don’t want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don’t believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me…
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