DEAR HARRIETTE: I have a friend who posts on social media regularly. Over the past few months, he has lost about 40 pounds. He works out every day and looks amazing. I am inspired by him — but not enough to actually get up and do anything for myself.
TODAY'S HISTORY
As we watched the Red Skelton show on our black and white television more than 50 years ago, I can remember my father telling me to pay attention to Skelton as he explained the Pledge of Allegiance word by word.
The drive to make Washington, D.C., a state has been a favorite of some Democrats for years. Why wouldn't it be? If enacted, a new state, formed from deepest-blue D.C., would create two new Democratic senators and one new Democratic member of the House. For a Democrat, what's not to like?
“ Here is the truth ... From us there is nothing except ingratitude." Those words come from a sermon from Saint Junipero Serra, founder of the California missions.
The raven nest was the big news this spring.
When is the filing period for city council? When are city elections held? When do elected city officials take office? How long is two years?
What do George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Father Junipero Serra and Christopher Columbus have in common?
I think my next-door neighbors might be superheroes.
John Bolton, the former national security adviser, writes in his new book that President Trump makes decisions based on only one calculation: his own political self-interest.