Ben Talsma
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I attended a concert recently, although the performers didn’t know it. They were collegiate musicians practicing outdoors beneath a tent; I overheard the…
Normal. These days, “normal” feels nostalgic — a reminder that the world wasn’t always apocalyptically strange. We long for the way…
The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made me think of Dennis the Menace. There are, famously, two…
Three years ago, my daughter pretended that the world was made of hexagons. This was not a whimsical flight of the…
The back-to-school season is always filled with uncertainty, but this year is different. As schools around the country scramble to adapt…
This fall, when we send our children back to school, the kindergartner who loved to hug everyone will become a first grader who loves to…
Everybody’s different. We say it and, on some level, we understand it. But in a world of limited time and scant…