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  Randall Blythe’s Mission

  In the heat of a 2010 heavy metal concert in Prague, 19-year-old fan Daniel Nosek rushed the band and was…

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  Music

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  Finding Joy at Work and Maximizing Your Time

  Spring cleaning usually brings up images of bleach and dust rags, but this spring, I’m cleaning up how I spend…

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  Books

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  The Road Not Taken

  “Two roads diverged in a wood,” Robert Frost famously wrote, “and I,/ I took the one less traveled by,/ And…

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  Books, Culture

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  Why Have Kids? They Make Life Meaningful

  by Mark Tapson

  No sooner had I cleaned my seven-week-old daughter’s poop off my…

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  Culture

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  A Life Well-Lived and Lived Well: Dave Brubeck, RIP

  “I love to play,” Dave Brubeck said at age 81. “When you love something, you just don’t want to stop.” But…

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  Music

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  Career Yay! Princess Nay!

   Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor showed up on Sesame Street the other day. Not to discuss the allegations of sexual…

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  Culture, Television

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  The Lesson of “Mr. Holland’s Opus”

  Earlier this week, Ryan Duffy posted a thought-provoking piece on Acculturated that posed the question, “If we have a career…

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  Movies

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  What Batman Can Teach Us about Career Change

  In Frank Miller’s classic, game-changing graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Bruce Wayne has entered his middle-age years, and…

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  Comics, Culture

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  “I’m a Teacher”: A New Dimension for New Girl

  Unlike most sitcoms, New Girl has been able to showcase the multidimensioanlity of its characters from an early start–even developing…

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  Television

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