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I often wake up with music playing in my head… usually some old forgotten tune, maybe one I hadn’t thought…
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Maybe the seminal moment in my education came when, as a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame, I sat…
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With the release of the new Mary Poppins movie, I couldn’t help but remember some thoughts I had about the…
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