Starting Your Career in 2023
The problem with this day and age is people are afraid to be seen as fools. I don’t mean deliberately obnoxious fools
Seeing with New Eyes
On the morning of April 18, just before I sat down to work on the second draft of this column, a column
Commonplace: Then and Now
Meteorological Spring starts on March 1 and includes March, April, and May. In 2023, Astronomical Spring started on March 20, the day
Everybody’s History
Writers William Faulkner and James Baldwin both suggest the past is never past; we carry history in us. People’s stories show how
Trigger Warning
We all speak different languages. Punctuation on paper conveys emotion; we punctuate our spoken words with tone of voice and body language.
Looking All Ways Always
I recently found a faded, wrinkled, penciled list of hopes and dreams I’d written for what I believe was the first and
We Now Know
It was in November 2011 while hiking in Clark Reservation that I suddenly remembered people and places I’d known when I was
Mapping the News Over Time
Itinerant messengers, speakers, and scribes have long carried stories and news from near and far throughout time.
Home Grown Ingredients
Many people believe that it’s bad manners to discuss politics over dinner. Merriam Webster defines politics as “the art or science of government.”
Our Living Constitutions
Independence Day on July 4 celebrates the thirteen colonies break from Britain in 1776. The Revolutionary War, and all the discussions and documents
