Author: Doni M. Wilson
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Spring Fever
Originally posted on Reflection and Choice: For Joan Donaldson Today, March 20th, is the first day of Spring. If you are really in the know, you might call it the Vernal Equinox, and do that little experiment in which you test an egg and see if it shares the equilibrium that is supposed to infuse…
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Scarlet Letters, Waking Up, and Social Engineering
Originally posted on Reflection and Choice: “Don’t Worry. It’s just a fake baby.” A version of this essay also appears today in the Gray Matters section of The Houston Chronicle, 5 February 2015. You can read it here: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/Fake-babies-won-t-stop-kids-from-getting-pregnant-6064367.php?t=e86c7a4a6479b87a02&cmpid=twitter-premium This essay was also published on 23 December 2013 in The Imaginative Conservative. I have a friend,…
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“Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word”: Lance Armstrong and the Art of Apology
Originally posted on Reflection and Choice: Lance Armstrong had something to say this weekend: he is really, really sorry. But as he was confessing to Oprah Winfrey, the secular priestess of wayward celebrities, I couldn’t help but wonder for what exactly he was apologizing. It wasn’t the doping itself: he admitted to Ms. Winfrey that…
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Pride and Prejudice: Five Reasons to Celebrate
Originally posted on Reflection and Choice: Our Dear Jane “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Any objections? As the evening wanes, I cannot help but note that today was the anniversary of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice (hey,…