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My sons are coming for dinner, but I hope to give them something much more valuable and enduring than a meal and some gifts. Something I was never given, so today I’ll be giving it to myself as well. Finally, I will determine the difference between sweet potatoes and yams. Two different recipes — one [...]

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Mornings are easy to keep uninterrupted, and I’ve made mine like Grandma’s. Warm your hands, do a little work, sip something steaming, consider the day ahead, and savor what may be your only moments of waking calm.

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I’m sure the Word-A-Day editors enjoyed the alliteration of “an entirely evitable event,” but the phrase is not original to me.

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I’m late this week. I had to take time out for a minor medical procedure. Tomorrow I’ll give you your customary four choices for this week’s essay, but here’s one I probably WON’T write about, because somebody else finally has. Newsweek’s current issue explores the important idea that we have conflated race issues with class [...]

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