Byline: By JOHN BOS

Music to die for

2/25/20

She walked in. She sat down about 12 feet from me. She closed her eyes in some kind of meditation. Then she began to play.Oh my God, did she play...

I would really appreciate some serious responses as to why there is such fervent support for President Trump. I am trying to understand what is...

“Baby, let me follow you down Baby, let me follow you down Well, I’ll do anything in this God-almighty world If you just let me follow you down...

I have “reinterpreted” Clement Clarke Moore’s classic poem as a commentary on the state of politics in America for the past seven years. As each...

In one of several responses to my recent My Turn, “Where is the Fire Department,” I received some pithy advice from one correspondent. He suggested...

Where is the fire department?

10/19/19

“It is often very difficult to make up one’s mind. The difficulty may be due to the complexities of the issues involved, or to the limited number...

“So I didn’t stand up. And I didn’t ask why.” These lyrics by Mike Stern from his song “Stand Up,” hit me like a ton of bricks on Aug. 9. They were...

How big is a trillion?

8/15/19

Have you even wondered just how big a trillion is? One trillion is a thousand billions, or equivalently, a million millions.If you lived to be 80...

I had the same experience that Daniel Brown wrote about in his July 11 My Turn essay “Americans flirt with ‘Nazism-Lite’” in which he describes the...

“How far,” he asked me, “is it from here to the French King Bridge?” Wallace (that was not his real name) was sitting, as I usually found him on...

The first words that Patten Hill resident/writer/hiker/gardener Claire Blatchford writes in her latest book – “Rolling With The Waves” – are these:...

Here’s an indisputable fact; we have a narcissistic authoritarian as president who has brought us – all of us – to a moment of reckoning about the...

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