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I'm kind of going through that right now. My wife is dealing with cancer and the aftermath of a stroke and a heart attack which left her...

I think grief changes us permenantly. I was going to say, especially if it is an unexpected death. But on reflection, it's not fair to...

Well, characters grow over time, and confront situations where they're forced to get out of their usual mindset. A classic example is...

Odd thought. The "tomboy trope" is that girls don't act like girls, doing little-girl things like playing with dolls or playing house or...

As a septuagenarian, I can attest that I took one course in my senior hear in high school (1965-1966). It was called "sociology" but was...

That and also - learning to separate influence from facts. It's shocking the way teachers push their own agendas in class settings now...

Horses and high adventure sports caused me more than one hard knock on the head. The worst was a horseback accident that left me...

The ability to read, the ability to filter things. The list goes on. But when mind/brain breaks down for whatever reason, the results...

You know the feeling, then. It is real. Thanks for sharing that. I wrote a poem about how the presence of my first wife still haunts...

Well, this is a philosophy thread. If it helps, I'd look at having someone in life, having time together, to be not a norm, but a...

Speaking as a widow, I can attest that my entire body feels the loss of my husband. I don't mean in the poetic sense, I mean in the...

I used to do algebra problems just for fun. And I did OK in higher math classes until I got to integral calc. That was my Achilles'...

I think school is the "leading the horse to water." A kid could leave the best funded school still believing that fractions are a waste...

And that is why we need education

I admit I have some utopian ideas about education, something that probably will never happen because it would cost too much. First of...