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Many years ago I took a church youth group to Marengo Caves in Indiana. We spent a couple of hours underground touring the caves with lot of twists, turns and smallish places we belly-crawled through. At one point our guide told us of a similar group of tourists back in 1982 who turned a corner and were confronted by a masked gunman on a ledge demanding that they turn over their valuables. They laughed as they assumed it was part of the tour. It wasn’t.

Editor’s note — This is the fourth of a multipart column about the author meeting famous rock and roll stars:

Do I support U.S. military funding for Ukraine to thwart Russia’s assault on Ukraine’s sovereignty? Yes, I do, unequivocally. Do I regret that the funding of Ukraine’s defense against Putin’s aggression has become a partisan football? Yes, it’s a sad commentary of our times that every and anything that needs serious attention has become zero-sum team politics.

My husband, Peter, and I are headed out to Mexico again, and before we do I thought it was a good time of year to check in with some folks I care about to see how 2024 had been treating them so far.

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Editor’s note — This is the third of a multipart column about meeting famous rock and roll stars:

In the United States you can go to jail for homicide and murder without killing someone. It happens all the time. It happens in Ohio. It happens to kids, and it happens intentionally. Police charge criminals with murder knowing they didn’t kill anyone. Prosecutors seek convictions knowing the defendant did not kill anyone, and judges sentence those convicted to life in prison, and sometimes to be killed themselves through the death penalty with full knowledge that the convicted didn’t take a life.

One of the lead stories from all major news outlets last week was exemplified by The Wall Street Journal: “Last Year’s Global Temperature Set a Record.” I was struck by a graph under that WSJ headline that showed U.S. average temperature anomalies since 1900. From 1900 to about 1980, the warm years and the cold years for the most part balanced out. But since the year 2000 the balance has disappeared with no offsetting cooler year anomalies. In fact, the years have become increasingly warmer, warmer than ever before, and again with no cooler offsets.

My dad turned 90 this weekend and we were all set to drive up north to celebrate his birthday.

Editor’s note — This is the second of a multipart column about the author meeting famous rock and roll stars: