Every year, polls show that a large number of Americans don’t know why we celebrate Memorial Day.
What are you doing to celebrate Memorial Day?
Let’s track the history of American retail and service establishments. If you watch old movies and TV shows, you know that in the 19th century…
I lived in the Clermont for a month. Every weekday morning, before I hiked up Ponce to the labor pool, I marveled at the view from my fourth-f…
If you watch Discovery Channel, you have undoubtedly seen footage of male animals engaged in a power struggle for the right to lead their grou…
My best friend was around to my house on a recent Saturday for a long overdue reunion. Adult schedules and the demands of parenthood being wha…
A couple of years ago, my two-year-old son and I spent a day swimming at my Mom and Dad’s house. We went inside to eat lunch. Within seconds, …
What was the biggest threat to America in the last seven years?
Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon infelicitously said a few years ago that the goal of the MAGA movement was “to flood the zone with (expletive).”
May is a designated time for many important health observances, making it the perfect opportunity to refocus on your overall wellness and prio…
Some years back, I had lunch with a now-deceased friend who was a former state senator.
Fifty-one years ago, the national Democratic Party and its presidential nominee were characterized as the party of ”acid, amnesty and abortion…
“Regret everything and always live in the past” — Zadie Smith, from “The Autograph Man.”
Unless you spent the past month touring Antarctica, you probably know that Etowah is dealing with drinking water that tastes and smells bad. T…
There is a loneliness epidemic in the United States, but there are some simple ways we can address it.
I gave a presentation to a local community group last week.
To borrow a phrase from Claude Rains in “Casablanca,” I was shocked, shocked! to find that non-stop lying was going on in the MAGA game room at CNN.
AOC and her Green New Deal buddies in the Biden government are not just winning their crusade against fossil fuels.
It was only a dream.
She was only 18 when rheumatic fever damaged her heart.
“I don’t think my husband has ever told me something he wanted to implement in our parenting,” my friend told me.
In the children’s classic, “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer, a boy named Milo goes on a quest to discover himself an…
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Three-quarters of a century ago, when Joe Biden and Donald Trump were children, this state was a backwater, both the smalle…
When the Chattanooga paper ended home deliveries, I began going to the library to read newspapers two or three times a week. I’ve developed a …
VERO BEACH, Fla. — I saw it lift into the dusky heavens, reaching upward in a stunning ballet of determination and grace, creeping across the …
A career in healthcare is not for the faint of heart. It requires strength, determination, courage and a selfless regard for others.
Here’s to the graduating class of 2023. Unlike any other senior class in history, their four-year high school journey has been a roller coaster.
This was all completely predictable. The government is facing a massive fiscal crisis because House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a lethal combina…