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Like most people — in America and abroad — the year 2020 can't end soon enough. Greeting the New Year itself, I suspect, will have a different tone this year. Less a celebration and more a fervent prayer for the arrival of optimism.

To me, 2020 will always stand as the year I lost my business partner, wise counselor, and best friend: my husband ...

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By the first of August, 2020 — amidst the growth of COVID-19 hotspots around the country — American media began reporting plans to reopen schools and universities or keep them shut.

Despite the good intentions and hard work of parents, teachers, administrators, and civil servants, the unknown of COVID-19 has made already fractious education ...

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In mid-March, I was coming to grips with the arrival of the COVID-19 virus in Pennsylvania; the Governor had ordered a state-wide lockdown for an unknown period. A feeling of uncertainly struck me, and I didn’t like it one bit. It made me feel stressed. Funny: I am rarely bothered by stress; I usually thrive on it. I decided to create this website ...

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I was thrilled to find this photo, which my mother marked as “Debarking in Tokyo - October 1947,” because of its story. It is a tale told thousands of times as American families reunited after World War II. Here’s my story behind this photo, which I had never seen before I discovered it in an album in a steel file cabinet that contained my father’s ...

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In April 2016, I discovered an unusually heavy cardboard box buried under a 20-year accumulation of “stuff” in the rarely used bedroom closet of the summerhouse portion of our 1876 Annville, Pennsylvania farmhouse. It must have come into my possession after my father died in October 2004, when we also received a steel cabinet that contained files ...

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