Opinion

The Axe Handle

In 1974 I found myself traveling through Arkansas on my way to California. Since I wasn’t old enough to drive, I hitched a ride with a man driving a large truck. He…

Matchmake, Matchmaker…? Yenta Has Gone Cyber

Back in the day, you could meet someone to date through friends, work, activities, hobbies, religious affiliations, clubs, parties, concerts, marches, bars or other serendipitous meeting places. One, often excruciating, way to…

Dying Practice

“Walk around the room…Allow your movements to take you…without knowledge of the next direction…Move your body…and feel. Include the feeling of breath and pause…paying special attention to the pause….” We are dying.…

Glancing Behind, Looking Ahead

We have reached the last month of the year, a year that for many of us has brought changes, uncertainties, hopes and wishes for a brighter future in the year ahead. We…

Helicopters

As a history teacher for 25 years, I had the opportunity to witness the evolution of parenting from the late 1980s into the second decade of the twentieth century. For some odd…

Connections

My beloved editor, Flavia Potenza, named this column “All Things Connected.” I’ve been thinking about that while picking a subject to write about at this most wonderful time of the year. I…

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This is What We Do…

On Friday, December 8 at 5 p.m., I received a text from Kevin Taylor, a high school friend of my husband (Paul Pedroza), saying, “My office (Senator Henry Stern) is organizing emergency hay…

I Helped Cover Up the JFK Assassination Conspiracy

Now it can be told: I helped cover up the JFK assassination conspiracy. When the first President Bush signed the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act on October 26,1992, it called on the…

The IoT: The Internet of Things

Words are symbols for objects and concepts. We hear the word, dog, and we have an immediate understanding of what the word means. So, what the heck does Internet of Things (IoT)…

Even unto Bethlehem

I had one of those exasperating working dreams, filled not only with great physical effort, but mental anguish and a time limit. I’ve suffered the hideous waitress nightmare wherein I’m overwhelmed by…