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Home Decorating & Improvement Projects I am Planning for 2021

Pin Share Tweet Here we are on the other side of the holiday season and the year 2021. If New Year’s Day didn’t land on a Friday I would have been back posting on January 2nd. The weekend was an added bonus to our holidays. 🙂 Now that it is …

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Project Plans for 2021

Last night we had a family meeting (with the 3 oldest kids joining via videochat). Each of us reported on our year, and we reviewed a list of family goals we had made at the beginning of 2020 — laughing hard at how few we accomplished. For example, at the …

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Outside the Box: Why partisanship will increase in the post-Trump era

Many are hoping that when Donald Trump—one of the most divisive U.S. presidents in the past century or more—leaves office, the historically elevated levels of partisanship in U.S. politics will at least begin to subside. But the opposite is vastly more likely.  There are short- and intermediate-run, as well as …

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