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The Anxious Parent

David Mills

The trampoline, that upset them. We bought one of the big round ones for our eldest’s sixteenth birthday a few years ago, and parents we knew (mothers more than...

Homeschooling’s Liberalism

David Mills

The other day someone asked about our children, and my answer worried him, or at least he claimed to be concerned. When they hear the answer to their question,...

Real Death, Real Dignity

David Mills

He was a dignified man suffering all the embarrassing ways a hospice deals with the body’s failure as cancer begins shutting down the organs. Dying in a hospice, you...