It appears the new Athens City Council members have given considerable attention to the city’s logo. That’s an interesting top-of-mind choice.…
How you answer this question is important. As we continue our series on how technology affects us and our relationships, this question serves …
We often associate the month of February with hearts because of Valentine’s Day. However, there is another reason we should think of hearts in…
Forty years ago this week, I was doing my radio show when I heard that Karen Carpenter had died.
It’s tough to decide what’s more odious: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ racist, authoritarian, and nakedly political power play rejecting an Advan…
The IRS is so kind.
How fitting it is that just days after Groundhog Day, Americans have awoken to discover yet again that House Republicans are doing anew what t…
There came a time in my life when I believed all my existential questions could be answered, or at least obscured, by kayaking with what some …
When Bizzy (30 lbs.) accosted Hobrook (75 lbs.) barking aggressively right in her face, it could have turned ugly. Holbrook was a boxer/pit bu…
It’s always good when people take time out of their busy schedules to protest what they believe to be an injustice.
It’s one of the best days of the year and we owe our gratitude to the remarkable man who made it possible.
Welcome to part two of our series on how technology can help and hinder us and our relationships. Our goal is to use technology responsibly. H…
It’s a stretch, but I think I know the real reason the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago.
The good news is many Republicans want to leave Donald Trump in the dust. The bad news is so many of them are just as odious.
I grew up in such a simple time. From the time I was six, I manned the cash register at my family’s grocery store.
Groundhog Day cannot come soon enough.
This month, for the first time in 50 years, the annual March for Life was more celebratory than cautiously hopeful, more forward-looking than …
My Nhan, 65, immigrated to the United States from Vietnam in the 1980s, and made her home in California’s San Gabriel Valley, in a community c…
Ray Oldenburg, author of “The Great, Good Place,” writes about the “third place” and how it enhances a community’s quality of life. An urban p…
There’s a story about an older fish crossing currents with two younger fish.
This time I’m gonna write like Ring Lardner again because somehow it’s easier to write like that than it is to write like myself. A shrink mig…
With all my heart I cherish the saga of George Santos (aka Anthony Devolder, aka Anthony Zabrovsky) because he’s the quintessential epitome of…
Is Davos over yet?
Despite my childhood dreams, I have reached an inevitable conclusion: I could never be President of the United States.
A constant in the political universe is the quest to occupy the moral high ground, that space that sets apart those with noble intentions and …
I love my gas stove — almost as much as I love my Weber gas grill.
One of my friends used to tell an anecdote about actress Tallulah Bankhead. Or was it Bette Davis? Or Joan Crawford? Well, none of them, inclu…
The half-dozen versions of the final report of the committee examining the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, aren’t the only books that ar…
