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When my parents got married in 1971, interracial marriage was so rare that their wedding made headlines.

When my parents got married in 1971, interracial marriage was so rare that their wedding made headlines.

What liberals believe What conservatives believe “Once upon a time, the vast majority” of people suffered in societies that were “unjust, unhealthy, repressive and oppressive.” These societies were “reprehensible because of their deep-rooted inequality, exploitation and irrational traditionalism — all of which made life very unfair, unpleasant and short. But…

To the writers of the unit: Greetings. As we learn how to write this show, a recurring problem becomes clear. The problem is this: to differentiate between DRAMA and non-drama. Let me break it down now. Everyone in creation is screaming at us to make the show clear. We are…

We tell ourselves stories in order to live… We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the…

"The Huron Carol," a Christmas hymn written in the native language of the Huron Indians by a French missionary in Canada in 1643.

My favorite Christmas story is “The Shepherd,” a short story by Fredrick Forsyth about a Royal Air Force pilot flying home from Germany on a dark and foggy Christmas Eve in 1957 when his fighter jet suffers a catastrophic failure of all electrical systems. Emergency procedures fail, his compass goes…

I was trying to take a picture of myself, not realizing my phone was in video mode. Here’s a better one.