Violence at political rallies? Creating apparent threats? Very old stuff. I happened to read the other night descriptions of some rallies when the violence was real. In one, a Republican…
Last week, fire gutted the Century Inn in Scenery Hill, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Built between 1788 and 1794, it was still serving great country cooking three years ago when I…
Publisher’s Note: The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut observed a ‘day of awareness’ of the Anglican Church’s complicity in and profit from the African slave trade. This homily by my friend…
It’s not often an article so lodges in my head that I must reread it three days later. Such is ‘Rotten Ice: Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic’ by…
What happens when an essential part of the social safety net frays or disappears? A conversation with my son, Jotham, a lawyer who’s handling some Workers’ Compensation cases, got me…
‘America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy….’[1] So said Warren Harding in his successful campaign for president in 1920. But how different was Harding’s ‘normalcy’…
‘Leave it to the Chinese to secure the White House, the US Capitol, most US Airports and international borders.’ That headline on an eTurboNews.com release on Feb. 1 grabbed my…
Why do the illegals keep coming? The journey of terrors to reach water in the US doesn’t stop them. Neither the certainty of life off the books nor the chance…
On my first trip to the Bahamas in April 2008 I happened on a ‘rush’ by a small Junkanoo band. I was hooked. My new gallery shows why. We…
My mother shut off topics that approached her well-defended borders of propriety. Her eyes would slowly rise above the lenses of her half glasses to meet the speaker’s. ‘Do I…