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September 2, 2022
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
Sep 2, 2022
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September 16, 2022
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
Sep 16, 2022
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August 12, 2022
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
Aug 12, 2022
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September 9, 2022
When you teach an Introduction to Literature or Introduction to Creative Writing class, your first task is to confront students with a challenging fact…
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Sep 9, 2022
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December 2, 2022
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
Dec 2, 2022
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February 2, 2023
I have always been struck by a repeated assertion of one of my heroes, humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, about those people he called…
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November 11, 2022
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
Nov 11, 2022
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January 13, 2023
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
Jan 13
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January 13, 2023
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May 13, 2022
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
May 13, 2022
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March 3, 2023
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
Mar 3
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March 3, 2023
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September 30, 2022
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
Sep 30, 2022
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June 24, 2022
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…
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Jun 24, 2022
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June 24, 2022
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