When fiction runs into reality
It’s a curious situation when fiction runs into reality. While in the midst of a second novel in which climate change and immigration are...
Pictures are reminders of Angel
I used to have a friend who lived in Paris.Paris is expensive. Angel bought the largest apartment she could afford, and it was tiny....
Who needs a bestie? Just be a friend
My 13-year-old is struggling with a particular label right now. She can’t decide who her best friend is, or even who her primary friend...
The death of shirts and skins
Certainly, there’s no dispute that how both the young and the old play their games has changed over the years, from my most active...
Wealth disparity in America
Fortune Magazine reported last month that according to new data from the Federal Reserve, the “Top 1 percent of U.S. households hold 15 times...
Troubling seasonal rumors
I have been studying up on frightening holiday rumors and found some surprises. There is apparently no evidence that any child has ever been...
Schools should pause for prayer
To the editor:If there ever was a time that children needed to learn how to pray to the God of heaven, it is the...
Inmate who died, and lived again
Many years ago, a couple of days before Halloween, the weather was dull and sunless, and the wind blew my deputy sheriff’s uniform like...
Let’s salute health care workers
Sometime things go bump in the night and sometimes those things are us. When that happens, we’ve got one thing to say: “Thank you,...
My brain wasn’t ready for that
Big shocker: I just found out after doing some very basic research that I wasn’t as smart a young man as I once thought.Did...