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Sunday Firesides: Stop Sending Out Your Smaller Man
Each of us contains two selves: one that’s full-sized, and one that’s shrunken down.
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Kate McKay
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Sunday Firesides: For Things to Stay the Same, Everything Will Have to Change
In Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard, a Sicilian prince watches as the world shifts beneath his feet.
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Kate McKay
13
Sunday Firesides: You Make the Magic
As children, we experience life as something that happens to us.
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Kate McKay
18
Sunday Firesides: You Are Your Relation to Pain
The biological experience of physical or emotional pain is straightforward.
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Kate McKay
15
Sunday Firesides: You Might Be Living in a Golden Age Right Now
You’ve been arguing more than usual with your wife.
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Kate McKay
17
Sunday Firesides: Life Needs More Jazz
Jazz, more than any other musical genre, has always carried an air of cool.
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Kate McKay
25
Sunday Firesides: Don't Slide — Decide
A couple starts dating.
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Kate McKay
18
Sunday Firesides: Embracing the Coin of Character
When we think about our friends and loved ones, we sometimes feel to say: “I love X about them, but wish they weren’t so Y.”
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Kate McKay
15
Sunday Firesides: Why Seek Ye the Living Among the Dead?
According to the Gospel of Luke, when a group of Jesus’ disciples approached his sepulcher three days after his crucifixion, they were astonished to…
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Kate McKay
28
Sunday Firesides: Information Won't Save You
In the 1930s, around 10,000 new books were published annually.
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Kate McKay
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Sunday Firesides: You Gotta Do What's Best for You?
You’re facing a decision: Do you stay in a stagnant marriage or walk away?
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Kate McKay
20
Sunday Firesides: Treat Life Like an Experiment
Have you ever been on a vacation that didn’t go well?
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Kate McKay
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