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A Woman, a Child, and a Dragon
10 minutesLately the UK has been gripped by the Post Office scandal wherein hundreds of postal workers have been unjustly prosecuted for fraud and theft.[1] While this scandal involves events that took place between ten and twenty years ago, its effects are ongoing and resurfaced afresh this month in the four-part ITV drama “Mr. Bates vs. the […]
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The Christmas Gift
9 minutesSeneca and the Tossing Game One of my happiest childhood memories of Christmas is getting together at my grandparents’ house with extended family. We’d do a secret Santa gift exchange, unwrap our gifts, and be left with a mound of crumpled up wrapping paper. We’d then ball it all up and throw it around the […]
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The Beatitudes
5 minutesA New Kingdom Moving to the UK two years ago, I needed to know how to live in this kingdom and what’s expected of me: what I should do, what I should not do. In a way, I had to go back to school to learn the rules of the United Kingdom. Author James Joyce […]