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In May 2013, I organized a suicide note creative writing workshop.

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Despite the frequent claim that we are living in a secular age defined by the death of God, many citizens in rich Western democracies have merely switched one notion of God for another — abandoning their singular, omnipotent (Christian or…

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To be, or not to be in a relationship, that is the question.

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From 2181 to 2160 BC, there was a point at which fourteen separate Pharaohs ruled for 70 days. That’s ten weeks pregnant. That’s a mostly finished H.G. Wells novel. That’s a potential plot for an Adam Sandler/Vince Vaughn buddy comedy called, “Too Many Pharaohs.”

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Sometimes when you think you love something what you really love is not the thing itself but just some small and inessential part of it: you think you love banana splits but really you just love the maraschino cherry on top and you think you love autumn but really you just love getting a Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks…

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If for a moment one can imagine Hamlet as a 14-year-old girl, born from the schaudenfreude of millennials, then perhaps one can understand the tragic story of Rebecca Black. It has been many Fridays since Ms. Black failed to upset the establishment and “got down.”

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Like so many great works of art, this video leaves so many questions unanswered. …Like, does the kitten eventually outgrow the ball and go on to lead a fulfilling life? Does his family eventually buy him a bigger ball? And what of the other black-and-white kitten? He sits to the side, a mute observer, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. …But what is his true story?