Here’s a lovely old song from World War I that articulates timely sentiments for me: “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier,I brought him up to be my pride and joy.Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder,To shoot some other mother’s darling boy? “Let nations arbitrate their future trouble,It’s time to…

This Sunday’s New York Times article about an alleged “post-abortion syndrome,” got me thinking about a D.C.-based group called The Search For Common Ground. The group, which existed from 1993 to 2000, sponsored a project called The Common Ground Network for Life and Choice (The Network). “The project goal was to change the dynamic of…

“Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn’t. I don’t want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don’t believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me…

Everybody’s writing today. We’re crafting emails that would make our high school English teacher proud, posting pithy comments on blogs, and editorializing on our own web pages. Will this kind of discourse replace the act of writing private thoughts in journals and diaries? I hope not. Writing something in a bound book daily is a…

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