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Give me a coffee and news on paper
Columns Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 7:33pmI am a news junkie. Give me a cup of coffee and news to read on newsprint each morning and I am content. Turning in my press card after 49 years, 11 months and 15 days has left me rudderless.
...Mother’s Day perfect for memory sorting and organizing
Columns Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 2:20pmThis year, I planned to spend Mother’s Day sifting through boxes and bags of miscellany that have been stored in an attic for the better part of a decade. After finally signing a contract for the...
Call out spouse if signs of parentification arise
Columns Comments Updated: May 07, 2013 12:36pmIn 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
Columns Comments Updated: May 07, 2013 12:31pmRather 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
Columns Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 12:10pmApparently 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
Columns Comments Updated: Apr 29, 2013 12:32pmThe 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
Columns Comments Updated: Apr 23, 2013 2:36pmHere’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
Columns Comments Updated: Apr 23, 2013 12:54pmOn 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
Columns Comments Updated: Apr 23, 2013 12:49pmSometimes 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
Columns Comments Updated: Apr 16, 2013 2:45pmThe 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...