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Soon it will be Labor Day once again, the day on which we in the United States celebrate the value of labor by not laboring. Occasionally, however, my…
Michael Dolzani
At first, it seems like a commonplace observation: stories, whether oral or written, do not exist independently, but only in relation to a teller and an…
Michael Dolzani
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Perhaps I should have a trigger warning for the youthful members of my audience: this is a newsletter about old age, specifically about continuing to be…
Michael Dolzani
When you teach an Introduction to Literature or Introduction to Creative Writing class, your first task is to confront students with a challenging fact…
Michael Dolzani
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I want to write about peace, which means not only writing about its absence but about the fact that a good number of people deny that it is a possible…
Michael Dolzani
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I have always been struck by a repeated assertion of one of my heroes, humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, about those people he called…
Michael Dolzani
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Last year, 2021, was the celebration of the 700th birthday of Dante’s Divine Comedy. I am, admittedly, a bit late to the party—ironically, as I have…
Michael Dolzani
A great deal of excitement has been stirred up by the release in November of a new form of artificial intelligence, or AI. In addition to being an…
Michael Dolzani
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What is the use of nostalgia, this yearning over the vanished past, this clinging to what is gone and will not come again? On Mother’s Day, I stood over…
Michael Dolzani
In an article in Harvard Business Review in 2017, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that there is a “loneliness epidemic.” Whether or not…
Michael Dolzani
Here in Ohio, although we are not yet out of September, the days have grown shorter and, at least for the moment, there is a touch of autumn chill in…
Michael Dolzani
The single most important source of the stories of Greek mythology is Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a book that had enormous influence on later poets, including…
Michael Dolzani
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