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Dealing with anxiety
Arthur Brooks—Harvard professor and behavioral scientist—defines anxiety as a chronic, low-grade fear response that protected our hunter-gatherer ancestors but now often misfires in modern life. He offers strategies to reframe one’s anxiety. Regard your anxiety as “unfocused fear.” Endeavor to clarify and name your anxiety so that it is not a vague fear lingering in…
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Take action now to support our democracy!
Given the recent murders of U.S. citizens by Trump’s Gestapo, it’s clear that we must take effective action to support our democracy and subdue the current move toward authoritarianism in our nation. Here are some ways you can take action right now. Call your representatives in Congress: Daily, consistent communication with your elected officials make…
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MY GRIDIRON DAZE
What I learned from football . . . the good, the bad, and the ugly It was an overcast November day in 1947. My dad Mack Mulkey, a student on the G.I. Bill at Southern Methodist University, was bursting with pride as we made our way to our bleacher seats at SMU’s Ownby Stadium for…
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Papa’s words ringing in my ears
“Papa’s words ringing in my ears, son, you got to get tighter with your tears.” As I listened to these lyrics of the Willie Nelson song, Old Fords and a Natural Stone, I was transported back more than half a century to my Tullahoma (TN) High School graduation. Our graduation took place on the evening…
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The Death Rattle of an Old America
In so many ways, Donald Trump represents the death rattle of an old America, and it’s loud and it’s violent. When Eddie Glaude Jr. shared these words in 2021 — quoted in I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker — the country was still reeling…
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Finding freedom in the confines of prison
It was 1993, and I had been making my weekly 30-mile trek from my little cottage in the hills outside Austin, Texas to Bastrop Federal Correctional Institute for the better part of a year. Each Thursday, I worked with the male inmates in the prison drug and alcohol rehabilitation program, and afterward, I taught creative…
Bruce Mulkey
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