parenting
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Training Spotify’s AI on the drive through Michigan
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3 min read
Why Spotify doesn’t play the stuff I want it to; just the stuff it “thinks” I want to hear. The personal fix is quite simple.
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A children’s choir concert
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2 min read
We have a twisted view of excellence and expectation; and we are afraid that there is more than one way to teach.
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I wrote a poem in the water
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1 min read
I wrote a poem in the water.Swimming with the familyit flowed and buoyantly carried me,along the beach, drifting likememory or expectations.Inflated like a float,I somehow became free of both.
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The Problem With Raising Resilient Kids
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3 min read
Is that sometimes you can’t. The thing about kids is that they will ultimately do what they want. And this, of course, is a good thing. We can’t make our kids resilient. We can, at best, help them develop the tools to be resilient. As the idea of raising resilient kids becomes even more trendy…
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Saint Joseph
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3 min read
Listening to that gospel story about Jesus in the Temple has new resonance for us today. Those of us who grew up with stranger danger already freak out at the thought of leaving our pre-teen son in a strange, public place for hours. Now it’s all the scarier when what surrounds us is a deadly…
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We Are More Than Our Kings
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9 min read
In 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13, we find a grieving Saul and a grieving God searching for a new king. Even though God still doesn’t want the people to have a king; even as there is a king still on the throne. Even with our lust for power, we’re still driven to love. Proper 6B | 1…