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- Sep 29, 2026
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Book Snapshot: The Art Spy (opens the original)
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My mental picture of people saving treasures from the Nazis was George Clooney and the Monuments Men, retrieving artwork at the close of World War Two. The Art Spy tells the story of curator Rose Valland, who worked valiantly to keep artwork from falling into Nazi hands as Paris was handed over to the Germans, and then documented the thefts for future recovery. When the Nazis took over Paris, they began “shopping” in museums and taking “owner-less art” that once belonged to Jewish families. Rose
My First Opinion is Going to be Wrong, Very Wrong (opens the original)
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Marinating. Ripening. Noodling on something. Lately, I find myself thinking about which things need action, and which things need to simmer. When we’re puzzled, or get bad news, our human responses are:Deny. It’s not that bad. It’ll be fine. Delay. Let’s talk about it at the next meeting…next year…when the kids go to college. Blame. It’s not MY fault that we have no money, people hate us, the roof fell in. It must be your fault. Fantasize. God, the lottery, or the mysterious future will provide.
Book Snapshot: When We See You Again (opens the original)
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I was wondering how a writer and a mother would begin a book about the very public loss of her son, Hersch, first to kidnapping by Hamas and then to murder in the tunnels of Gaza. It’s a story we all know; it’s a story no one can fully know. Rachel Goldberg-Polin begins this way: "Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was a regular and beige life, and it worked. It was a warm beige. We felt, and were, blessed and lucky. Normal. Suddenly, one day, while
I’m Not the Parent, I Want to Be the Kid (opens the original)
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Scarfing down a Christmas cookie, I could hear my mother complaining from the next room. “Mary made me quit driving.”It wasn’t me, I wanted to protest, it was the doctor. Instead, I stayed quiet and let her tell it her way. She left out the part where, one day, she started the car, backed partway down the driveway and stopped. She put the car in park and came back into the house. “I forgot how to drive,” she told my dad, and asked for a ride.If you forget in the driveway, then what if you forget
Book Snapshot: How to be Less Stupid About Race (opens the original)
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While not new, Crystal Marie Fleming’s book How to be Less Stupid About Race is an evergreen resource. I read it (again) and found the premise newly hopeful. Even if we can’t solve the systems of racism right now, we can take steps to be less stupid. Fleming holds that racism is both the big systems of oppression and the individual attitudes we carry. <a class="imag
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