Beauty a legal system factor?
Recently, while driving my work roads, I stumbled on a true-crime podcast, one which scratched an itch I’ve had for the genre ever since...
Peace begins with the truth
As I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, I became accustomed to watching the evening news with my parents. Those short news segments...
Movies with the next generation
It’s strange trying to explain your childhood to your children.It involves explaining a different time in a different culture in a different place. I...
Why good journalism matters
These days, how many times have you heard the statement that we live in a post-truth society? In my view, it’s a self-evident prophesy...
Nocturnal noshing from nowhere
I am a person of generally good habits, which is why it is puzzling when I acquire a bad one.Habits are probably the most...
Separating fact from fiction
Being a frequent distant driver, both for labor and leisure, I’ve seen a lot beyond my roads’ edge lines and those reminder grooves that...
It is well with my soul
It seems like not that long ago when Earl Hughes hired me as a “bag boy” at Great Scot in Hillsboro. I had to...
A rational or irrational world?
When I first turned 18 years of age, living in Greenwich, Connecticut, just a few miles from New York City, getting ready to make...
Cousins are a family gift
“We are cleaning up our stuff,” Meshach, the tile layer who now more or less permanently resides in our home, informed me. “We are...
How did you learn how to drive?
It was a different time for sure, back in the years when I was learning to drive and my Dad and others would take...