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Math and life

Categories Education, How to live, Life June 7, 2022 by Tom Chester

Since I finished graduate school five decades ago I have often taken classes—with private teachers, at community colleges, and through local groups. With only one … Read more

The path ahead

Categories How to live, Life, Wisdom August 8, 2022June 6, 2022 by Tom Chester

Somewhere down in my to-read pile of books is the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. It is about a young man … Read more

Bequest

Categories Best of Turnstone, Life, Writing August 17, 2024March 7, 2022 by Tom Chester

While composing the letter to my daughters that appears elsewhere on turn-stone.com, I had some ideas that I felt were more elegantly expressed in verse … Read more

Faith of a freethinker

Categories How to live, Religion March 31, 2022January 26, 2022 by Tom Chester

The Tucson Daily Star has a Faith page that appears almost every Sunday that features writings of preachers, priests, rabbis, and other religious leaders. I … Read more

More on writing a blog

Categories Of the Moment, Writing August 21, 2021 by Tom Chester

I started this blog in 2017 as a way to publish my writing, if only for a small audience on the internet. I greatly enjoy … Read more

Assault on clear thinking

Categories Oddments, Writing November 6, 2021August 21, 2021 by Tom Chester

I first encountered “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell in a composition class as a first-semester freshman at the University of Oklahoma. Being … Read more

Challenges of writing a blog

Categories Writing January 11, 2023August 10, 2021 by Tom Chester

Writing is almost always difficult for me. I read once that writing is nature’s way of showing you how muddled your thinking is. How true. … Read more

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