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...
“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...
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...