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Shoot

The old saying is “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people”; let’s amend that just a bit: “Guns don’t kill people; people with guns kill people” in record numbers. Isn’t

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Blame

Today is the three-year anniversary of my having taken my son to the emergency room because of sporadically-strange behavior.  Within hours, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, assumed to

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They Know Better

The news is full of the recent withdrawal of John Ratcliffe’s nomination for head of the National Security Administration – thank goodness!  So, another nominee of Trump bites the dust. 

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Dissent

Those who cry “Love it or leave it!” don’t seem to realize that to love the U.S. is to want to see it grow and improve, and that is only

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Go Back

[About four Democratic Congresswomen who are minorities]“….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.

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Our Shame

This was written the day before a photo of a drowned father and 2-year-old daughter was published; they had applied for legal immigration and were denied.  Apparently desperate, the father

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On Grief

I have come to understand a good deal about grief and loss, surely more than I ever wanted to.

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Paying Forward

In 1988, when my father was 85 and sick, he was told that he would have to go to a nursing home for full-time care.  Instead, he asked to “go

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