SevenDays: Make a Ripple to Change the World

A year ago at this time, a tragedy befell my community.  A lone shooter pulled into the parking lot of the Jewish Community Campus and murdered Dr. William Corporon and his grandson, Reat Underwood, as the young man was preparing to audition for a high school singing competition being sponsored by the Jewish Community Center.  […]

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NaNoWriMo IV

Hello, CLC Community!  Well, it’s that time of year… Welcome to November!  As has traditionally been the case, the CLC blog will become a daily (instead of a weekly) publication in keeping with the general precepts of National Novel Writing Month (for more of an explanation, see my posts on the matter from November 1, […]

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Tea is the New Coffee

Ni hao!  I write this post sitting in an airplane, sipping Chinese tea, somewhere over the East China Sea on my way to Hong Kong with Marc and Ian, having just spent a week touring Beijing and Shanghai.  Once again, I have evidence that human beings – irrespective of our histories, cultures, backgrounds – require […]

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