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Who Can You Believe?

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Abigail

Who Can You Believe? Since I don’t ask questions like the one above just to answer them with an urbane shoulder shrug, I’ll be glad to tell you. About a week ago, I received a call from someone I really … Continue reading →

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New Year Retrospective

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Abigail

New Year Retrospective I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. If they had any force for me, I might. First, you gotta believe in those things. But I do find living force in going back over the path recently trodden, to … Continue reading →

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Homesickness

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Abigail

Homesickness When I was twelve or thirteen, I had two favorite books: Homer’s Odyssey and Thomas Mann’s four–volume novel based on Genesis 37:1 – 50:25, Joseph and His Brothers. The epic recounts how Odysseus — the wily hero whose Trojan … Continue reading →

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A Woman Friend

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Abigail

A Woman Friend To most women, our female friends are of great importance in our lives. If my mother was right when she said, “A friend is a witness to one’s life,” we call in our female friends to witness … Continue reading →

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How to Be Modern

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Abigail

How to Be Modern I’ve never understood why people wanted to be modern in the first place. Okay, the dentistry is an improvement. I’ll give you that. On the other hand, Victorian people (as in the novels of Dickens) seemed … Continue reading →

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Miracle Stories

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Abigail

Miracle Stories We are just back from another of our week-long stays in Riverside, California. We go there periodically to get treatments only available from the neuropathy clinic at Loma Linda Hospital. Here’s how we “happened” to learn of this … Continue reading →

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How Hegel Helps

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Abigail

How Hegel Helps A British analytic philosopher friend read my “Obit” column of last week and noticed that I’d spent some of my professional time with G. W. F. Hegel, the nineteenth-century German philosopher. He emailed to ask what on … Continue reading →

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Read it Here First! My Obit!

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Abigail

Read it Here First! My Obit! All this week, Jerry and I have been attending to what I call “Last Arrangements.” Though we’re not expecting to kick off any time soon, you never know, and one of the chores I’ve … Continue reading →

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Snobbism

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Abigail

Snobbism I was reminded of how much I hate snobbism by another biography of a philosopher. Having just finished Ray Monk’s Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, from which I learned about a man, an era and a creative philosophical method … Continue reading →

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What’s with Wittgenstein?

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Abigail

What’s with Wittgenstein? Ludwig Wittgenstein seems still to bestride the narrow straits of world thought like a colossus, reflections of him flickering over cultural regions far afield from his own. By lamplight, I’ve been spending my recent weeks with the … Continue reading →

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