Seth Barnes

Barry Conner: A Life Spent Building a Better World

I will never forget flying to the Amazon jungle with Barry Conner in 1997. We had flown past the Andes as the sun came up. The week before, Barry had called. "Seth, I'm going to Iquitos in a week and I think you ought to come." I never...

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Yesterday I was working out at the gymn. As we were lifting weights, my friend Doug Hanson shared the following story he experienced last week. Doug knew a homeless man named Arthur. For fifteen years, Arthur lived under the Queen City bridge in...

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As parents, of course we love our kids. We build our lives around protecting them. We pack the snacks, fill the water bottles, fight the battles with the school, smooth the path before they ever know there was a bump. We do it because we love them. N...

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This is the first Mother’s Day I can’t call her.My mom, Jean Barnes, died last June. She was 91. Dementia slowly took pieces of her, but it never took her spirit. She stayed scrappy to the end, which is exactly how she lived every chapter of her ...

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We Took Away the Phones. But We Forgot to Give Them Back Their Childhood. We Took Away the Phones. But We Forgot to Give Them Back Their Childhood.

Something remarkable has happened in the last couple of years. Parents started pushing back. Schools banned phones. Legislators started passing real laws. Jonathan Haidt wrote a book that gave millions of families the language and the courage to say ...

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