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Love: At least you know it’s always there

Updated: May 21, 2013 3:59pm

So, if I said to you, “I’ve opened a bank account in your name. The account contains a balance of $5 million. To access the money, you’ll need the PIN number, which only I know. And I’m not going...

Give me a coffee and news on paper

Updated: May 14, 2013 7:33pm

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Call out spouse if signs of parentification arise

Updated: May 07, 2013 12:36pm

In 1960, Random House published “Are You My Mother?” by P.D. Eastman. I was 3 at the time, and it is the first book I ever remember reading.

It is a story about a bird hatching while his...

You have to drive, not fly, for cheese and wine

Updated: May 07, 2013 12:31pm

Rather than navigate airport traffic, wait in terminals, sit squished between obnoxious or diseased people on airplanes, haggle for a rental car, and then head back out into traffic, Ma and I...

You don’t know you’re beautiful, but it’s time to notice

Updated: Apr 30, 2013 12:10pm

Apparently I’m the last to hear about any cyberspace phenomena. A little research suggests I’m the 27-million-and-ninth person to see The Dove Beauty Sketches. If you, too, are a member of Not...

Leave smartphone home when pig riding across ocean

Updated: Apr 29, 2013 12:32pm

The following column is based on a true story. Names have been changed to protect the victim’s identity. Facts have been twisted and tweaked for entertainment purposes.

One of our very close...

Gay marriage is a matter of justice, not morality

Updated: Apr 23, 2013 2:36pm

Here’s how I read the sociocultural tea leaves: If you’re fighting in the army waging war against gay marriage, or, said another way, if you understand yourself to be fighting to protect and...

Popcorn kernel stress begins in kindergarten

Updated: Apr 23, 2013 12:54pm

On the windowsill of my kindergarten classroom, Mrs. Schmidlin prepared space for our paper cups. The cups contained a wadded up, wet paper towel with popcorn kernels wedged between the towel and...

More work needed to save the Postal Service

Updated: Apr 23, 2013 12:49pm

Sometimes one wonders if Congress has it in for the U.S. Postal Service. However, some missteps taken by the Postal Service are often self-inflicted.

The Postal Service is in an awkward...

We can work hard, but our starting point influences our fate

Updated: Apr 16, 2013 2:45pm

The single weightiest and greatest predictor of outcome is the starting point. That’s what all the social scientists say. And they are correct. Statistically and otherwise.

No; things are...

Recycled seeds bud for zombie-free urban garden

Updated: Apr 16, 2013 1:27pm

Little green sprouts are finally popping out of the saturated peat pellets under a plastic dome in my kitchen. This year, I decided forgo the costly trip to the garden stores. I will not be...

Stiffer penalties for texting, driving

Updated: Apr 16, 2013 1:21pm

Saturday morning while drinking coffee with a White Hall resident I got an earful from his son, an accountant who said he recently drove from Pine Bluff to Little Rock and was passed by at least...

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