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Sunday Firesides: Give Yourself an Order
Dwight D.
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Kate McKay
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Sunday Firesides: It's Fine . . . Until It's Not
Ted, who’s married, notices that he’s frequently finding reasons to swing by Lauren’s cubicle for a chat.
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Kate McKay
13
Sunday Firesides: Do a Deadlift for the Departed
While funerals today are generally sedate, sedentary affairs, in ancient times it was a different story.
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Kate McKay
16
Sunday Firesides: Write the Last Chapter First
​​Ever read a novel that started strong but completely unraveled by the end?
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Kate McKay
20
Sunday Firesides: Stuffed, But Starving
The modern world overwhelms us with inputs.
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Kate McKay
19
Sunday Firesides: You Did It Before and You'll Do It Again
During World War II, Americans rallied around a simple motto: “We did it before and we’ll do it again.” It evoked the nation’s success in WWI and other…
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Kate McKay
20
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
12
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
16
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
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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
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