I just learned that my ex-husband has remarried. I learned this as we learn about all important life milestones these days: on Facebook.
After a year of isolation because of COVID-19, we now have a better understanding of what it is like to lose some of the freedoms that we have long taken for granted.
Nobody wants to believe what they are seeing: the conversion of one of America's two major political parties into a cult of personality actively conspiring to overturn democratic rule in the United States. And doing so in broad daylight.
The political world has been focusing on the serious splits in Republican ranks – and rightly so. Purging party members who won't worship before the altar of Trumpism is an exercise in self-demolition.
May was National Foster Care Month, and a big concept for anyone who knows anything about foster care is reunification. Reuniting a child with their birth parents or parent is a beautiful thought and a positive goal, when it's possible.
In 1937, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic.
The City of Clinton is facing a huge dilemma on what to do with our aging city parks.
Everyone knows that I am attached to my desk. I would argue I have good reason. My desk is an extension of myself. Whereas other people are attached to their phones, I frequently lose track of mine. My desk is my home inside my home.
There's a word to describe political movements that emphasize ethnic, racial and religious solidarity over citizenship and pluralistic values, but it has unpleasant historical associations. Using it only causes political conversations to end in bitterness and name-calling.
To glimpse the future of the Republican Party if Trump and Trumpism continue to prevail, just look at what's happening in Arizona. Cheered on by the former president, the Republican-controlled state senate is sponsoring a wackadoodle recount aimed at overturning Joe Biden's narrow victory last November.