You hit the wall, bam, curtains. It is a grim picture, and it has been waking me up every morning at dawn. But I never remember the split second before the smash-up. I do not know what I am riding,…
Grave Concerns Sixteen years ago (May 7), my father passed away from Parkinson’s Disease and each year, my stepmother and I place flowers on his headstone as a memorial. Today, I tried to deliver a handful of home-grown (organic) Mountain…
When you’re sheltering in place, there’s no excuse not to mow the lawn. That’s the thinking in our small town, where you can be grass-judged and grass-shamed by your Dutch neighbors if you don’t keep it near regulation length. The…
Turns out he did have a second chance. Condemned to eternal boredom in Heaven, Billy Bigelow is given a single day to return to Earth. There, the hot-tempered, brawling carnival barker must attempt to make things right for the daughter…
The other day, my 10-month-old daughter punched a unicorn in the face. Her mother was playing with her in the nursery with some stuffed animals. Anj held up the horned toy. My daughter grinned at it, giggled, and got it…
Chestnuts are in blossom, but there are no holiday tables under the trees this spring as Paris struggles with the coronavirus. For the past seven weeks, its citizens have been confined to their homes, sans sidewalk cafes, sans restaurants, sans…
There will be much still to learn when COVID-19 has passed. Books will certainly be written questioning the knee-jerk authoritarian response from most governments. Opinions championing a more modest approach to future pandemics are already emerging, even as this one…
Never in its 231-year history has our entire country been shut down. You would think that COVID-19 must be the greatest threat we’ve ever faced. You would think that there must be overwhelming justification for such unprecedented action. Of course,…
Before the coronavirus pandemic, many American companies paid lip service to remote work or telecommuting. On the whole, they didn’t mean it. Even tech companies such as Yahoo! would spool out the kite string only so far, then declare they…