Daily Life
Throughout the course of history, man has looked for a sign from God... From Gideon’s thrown out fleece -- multiple times -- asking God to make the plan perfectly clear -- to Jim Carrey crying out to Morgan Freeman’s God character in “Bruce Almighty,” asking how to make people love him
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[With the Intramuralist tending to a special family event, I share one of my favorite editorials. This insightful piece was written by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, originally appearing on Salon.com in April of 2011.] Janet and I would likely have never met, save for the thing that unites so many
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We get so wrapped up in the world around us... so wrapped up in our passions and perspectives that sometimes we lose sight of what’s most important. And then... some days... something makes us stop. Something puts all else in perspective. For me, that’s my sister. Nicole is
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On Thursday the internet was flooded with a singular image (...perhaps to distract us from the massive internet regulations also adopted that day... but lest I digress...). The image could simply be coined as “THE DRESS.” The picture posed on social media was of a new, colorful dress. Some saw
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True to our namesake, once upon a time this semi-humble, athletic enthusiast routinely rewarded myself with a college Phys. Ed. class. My goal was to take one each semester to balance out the work load. Upon graduation therefore -- right below my highly respected and useful classes of Econ, BLaw,
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Let’s see if this works (... ahem... forgive me now...). In light of the subjectivity that many believe exists within the award distribution by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, I thought, perhaps, we could creatively combine a topic or two and come up with our own semi-
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As bantered back and forth in recent blog posts, there is ample question on how best to tackle the current crisis. The Intramuralist has been respectfully concerned with Pres. Obama’s unwillingness to be specific in his terminology, refusing to call out the perpetrators as “radical Islamic terrorists.” The administration
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I will never forget that first official, performance review. As a rising, white collar professional with a great job and greater expectations, fresh out of college and ready to roll, it was finally time for my superiors to tell me how wonderful I was. :) Yes, there are times we believe
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In recent months, we’ve witnessed outrage many places... fueled in Ferguson... stroked in the streets of New York City... casted at the ballot box. We’ve seen it directed at various venues... at lying newscasters... at arresting officers... at the latest box office attention-grabber. My sense, though, is
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Perhaps you noticed that the most recent Little League World Series team was stripped of their 2014 title. The group of 11-13 year old boys played terrifically last summer, earning the series championship by ousting teams across the globe. They worked hard, played hard, and had a few balls
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There are days I shake my head, wondering if life makes sense -- wondering if our reality has somehow evolved into some curvy, messed up fantasy world, where our focus and values have fallen somewhere between “Freaky Friday,” “As the World Turns,” and “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil
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(Oblige me briefly on today’s odd combination and thus creative frame of reference...) While this is not a parenting blog, I have learned some things via parenting I otherwise would have missed. Let me be completely transparent: sometimes those lessons mean complete failure and falling flat on my face;