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Column: Find The Times on TikTok and maybe we'll brush off our dance moves
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Shannon Casas
The Times is on TikTok.I was a bit skeptical about it, definitely more skeptical than when I pushed us to get on Facebook back in the day. We jumped on the Instagram bandwagon, too. We hopped on board with Pinterest for a while.
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Column: Choosing hope when the news is dark
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Shannon Casas
Hope is a pretty word.It sounds soft, warm and fuzzy, full of light. For anyone who has hoped for something for a long time, though, or tried to find hope in a really dark place — that word, whew, it’s so hard. When what’s hoped for feels impossible, what is the point of hope?
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