What sounded like all the fireworks on earth over the holiday weekend couldn’t assuage my dread at the memory of
This infernal summer grinds on Leaving fires and deaths in its wa… Heat emergencies in many places And August still waiting to bake.
Everyone wishes for a “better” lif… in some ways. A bigger house in a more desireable neighborhood. A sportscar or an SUV that
Voting is a privilege As well as a duty. How can it be that so many of us can’t be bothered
All war is a crime Since it ends some lives and upends so many others. Starting a war as Putin has done
Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop These are the time-honored sounds… When independence was declared fro… More than two centuries ago. But when those sounds filled the a…
While the Speaker’s chair sits em… the entire Congress remains immobi… The world looks toward the United… and finds nothing but disfunction. How can we presume to lead the wor…
Sometimes Inspiration finds you and it’s great when that happens. Just don’t expect it to remain ver…
Everyone will have a best summer o… Even if they won’t know it at the… There will always be the promise o… Even if they will never quite mate… Everyone also has a last summer on…
We have come to equate “fortune” w… as in “that outfit must have cost… but its real meaning is more abstr… Whenever the Roman goddess Fortun… it meant that things went well for…
The colors of the Fall So vibrant and unique Today’s kids might even say “Nature’s just on fleek!”
Blaming DEI Isn’t “common sense” at all You’re just a racist
In the enduring schism between “Dog People” and “Cat Pe… (since hardly anyone can be both, and people who get along without p… are not really at issue here)
As snowflakes drift across the Interstate before me Arctic gusts transform them into bubbling brooks and boiling cauldrons
“Will be wild” were the magic word… used by a sitting president to ann… the mayhem of January 6. So they gathered to await their di… from the man who had taken an oath
