American Pickers is of particular in my household, a working-class family with parents/contemporaries who lived through the...
Family
All death is certain, of course, but a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is among the more trying...
For the sake of not talking politics for a moment, let us indulge ourselves of this social...
People trade in indignation & outrage. I imagine we justify ourselves using this currency by appealing to...
I have realized how truly blessed I am...I have my friends and family by my side to...
Here is my journal which I kept from October 5 to December 21, edited for readability, followed...
A Child’s Christmas in Wales is itself, and in being itself it speaks to variegated experiences beyond...
My family watched the new Pixar film, Soul, and let me tell you it is the gut...
Instead of dragging out all the tired Christmas clichés and 2020 jokes, I’ll just share a...
Enduring institutional death is a difficulty of another magnitude and rising again is all but impossible. But...
I have seen many talking in front of I Love Me Walls: polished wood paneling and shelves...
Holiday memories force me to face my own mortality and reflect on my perspective of coming of...
I went to plan the family get-together, and I found much to my chagrin that the Klinkes...
The various non-food items that are necessary to have on hand not only in case of emergency,...
With that kind of empowerment and love at home, the Vice President-Elect was almost guaranteed a life...
Acceptance is the place to be when it comes to school closures. It’s ugly, sudden, disruptive and...
The fear of my father is transforming, evolving, not less in fear, but growing in it, producing...
Don’t put YOUR unreasonable expectations onto the backs of the working poor. They’ve already got enough to...
The Tommy Shelbys and Nucky Thompsons of the world are parasites on the real men who make...
Pet adoptions are way, way up. It makes a lot of sense- - what better time to...