OK! I鈥檒l admit I was afraid of the boogeyman when I was a kid.I鈥檇 see a scary movie. Then I鈥檇 live in bedtime-panic for weeks.Because I had little defense against the 鈥渦ndead,鈥� I could only do one thing to escape it. When my parents turned off my bedroom lights, I鈥檇 cover my head, ...
The call for Americans to come forward and unselfishly mobilize in the interest of the common good was the hallmark of John F. Kennedy鈥檚 new presidency in 1961.鈥淎sk not, what this country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country,鈥� was a simple request for Americans to look ...
With the exception of Jan. 6, 2021, itself, maybe the most traumatic day of the Trump presidency was June 1, 2020 鈥� the day peaceful American citizens protesting the police murder of George Floyd were forcibly removed from Lafayette Square, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White ...
With each new mass murder, people say the same things: 鈥淭here鈥檚 something different about this one.鈥� That, 鈥淢aybe things will change,鈥� because of it.NOTHING EVER CHANGES. Nothing!There will be national and even international media capturing the grief and funerals and thoughts and ...
You might say I鈥檝e been a cockeyed optimist all these years. Or foolish and naive. I鈥檝e never been with the people who proclaim that the country and the world are going to hell, that we鈥檙e doomed, that life will be miserable in the year ... well, anytime in the future.鈥淚鈥檓 glad I鈥檓 ...
Sometimes, when I reflect on my youth, I have some pretty haunting memories of the first (and last) time I gave a live 鈥渢heatrical performance.鈥漈here I was, among my fellow third-graders on stage at Park Elementary School, bouncing rubber balls to the beat of the song 鈥淪entimental ...
