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- Sep 6, 2026
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The Cracker Barrel: Life is different here (opens the original)
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Life in the woods is different from life in the city. Not necessarily better; but different. Recollections of my own arrival here many decades ago are speckled with frustrations. Compared to the urban pace of Chicago, life in the boondocks seemed to move in slow motion. Cars putzed along as if their drivers were half asleep. Clerks seemed more eager to chitchat than to ring up your sale and get you out of the store. Phone calls to local contractors might not be returned for days, even weeks, esp
The Cracker Barrel: The magical habit (opens the original)
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Changing our habits is, by all accounts, a difficult and frustrating task. From something as simple as learning to leave the toilet seat down or turning one’s dirty socks right side out before tossing them into the clothes hamper, to the truly challenging business of quitting an addiction such as smoking, old habits die hard. Some may not be worth changing. If, say, you habitually mispronounce or misspell certain words, who really cares? Your former English teacher, and maybe your spouse. No big
The Cracker Barrel: Hard bargain (opens the original)
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We were talking the other night about language and about our first trip to Mexico many years ago to visit my sister in Oaxaca, where she was working as a missionary. Language, we agreed, is a thing we really don’t think about much, like breathing. When we have something to say, we say it. If someone else says something, we listen. Since we share a common tongue, there is no need to pay much attention to the language itself. All of this changes when you go to a place where a different language is
The Cracker Barrel: Coming to grips (opens the original)
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Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosopher Epictetus wrote a sentence that anticipates much of what we know of modern psychology. “To accuse others of your own misfortunes is a sign of lack of education; to accuse yourself shows that your education has begun; to accuse neither yourself nor others shows that your education is complete.” Most of us would agree with the first part of this statement. Thanks to the insights of Freud and his many successors, we now know that many of the really bad
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