Andre Braugher’s dead While Clarence Thomas lives on. Death picked the wrong guy!

Billowing clouds swirl below While a pale yellow sunlight fringes the horizon. The fury of last night’s storms Upended our travel plans

Abraham Lincoln was our first poe… who really knew how to turn a phra… but the best one of all has to do… “We can complain that rose bushes… or we can celebrate that thorn bus…

Several years ago I encountered a… idling away as it waited to pick u… at a community center in suburban… I walked past the bus and observed its large exhaust pipe spewing

When Donald Trump took over as pr… the United States Constitution we… from the White House’s official w… If there’s a more fitting metaphor somebody tell me what that might b…

Birthday weekends are the best! Enjoy them all with verve and zest…

Attending Catholic schools as I did for 13 years instills certain ideas into a pers… The nuns and lay teachers assigned us all a Conduct grade

A long way from Mt. Pulaski on this cold, Illinois night. The Interstate is reaching out to Kris and Chuck, near Dwight. Dwight is far behind them now

She was once the fastest woman ali… and won a gold medal to prove it less than a decade ago. But where does one go from the top of the world?

With snow in California’s mountai… and trees falling down from the sk… climate change is the new normal and we don’t need to wonder about… The planet is tired of our bullshi…

American governance is only as str… As our ability to defend it. And if (or when) it goes away We won’t ever get it back.

Coffee and a crossword now The farmers market later College football on TV after that How could Sunday ever top that?

With floodwaters up to her waist A woman in Florida scrolls through her smartphone. Those devices really have taken over our lives,