Q. Good morning and Happy Memorial Day. Why did my gramps get mad at me? I woke up this morning and went to his place like I do just about every day off from school, and I said good morning like always and then I said I was upset because my mom has to work so we鈥檙e not having a picnic for ...
What's an ally worth? Plenty, if you're in a foxhole or storming a beach with one. The same is true if, as a U.S. soldier, you had a native-guide ally on your team in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan in the treacherous months and years after 9/11. Not so much if you are a member of ...
My proper British grandmother, Dora, loved cats (as long as they lived outdoors). There was never a time when we did not have at least two or three feral cats on our back porch. They always sat on the porch steps and played with me as a kid. Kitties were my friends. Twenty years later, we ...
Q. I think I want to take a gap year. I worked hard in high school, especially since 10th grade. My grades are great, and I got into my first-choice college. My family is happy, my teachers are proud, you know the drill. But I鈥檓 exhausted. Before you ask, no it鈥檚 not that I want to forego ...
As a teacher, husband, and new father in the 鈥�70s, expectations of what it meant to be a man changed. I can remember telling a friend, 鈥淚 grew up idolizing John Wayne and had to become Alan Alda.鈥� For my younger readers, it meant that men raised to admire the strong, silent, macho type ...
Q. Why do I have such lousy relationships? I鈥檓 a good person, honest. I try my best at school and in sports, I help out at home, I put up with my brothers (and this is NOT easy). I start out with someone, and it feels good. I think this is right. And then, something happens, like I get ...
