After years of having our local newspaper slung onto the driveway every morning, we recently made the decision, finally, to stop it. We’re still getting our Atlanta Journal-Constitution every day. But it’s in digital-only form from here on out, so we can read it on our laptops (because we don’t sit in front of those… Read More How to Read
A great debate now rages in the Democratic party about health care and health insurance and what rights America should grant its citizens, if any, to ensure that if we fall ill or are injured, we won’t have to worry that the exorbitant costs of care will lead us to early graves. Or dump us… Read More A Right to Health_Care
Maybe one of the oldest saws in the book-writing book is to “write what you know,” something I take as good advice, if not necessarily ironclad. WWYK is something that Stephen King, for one example, clearly has subscribed to over his long and prolific career. He places many of his stories in his birthplace and… Read More Write What You Know
I love Luann. It is, to confess, a weakness. That goofy, button-nosed plain-Jane always-a-teen has had me bewitched for years. In a household that still gets the local newspaper — an honest-to-God bunch of newsprint that is filled with news, more or less, and is delivered in a little plastic bag onto our driveway every… Read More The National Comics League
The best novels, the best stories, stay with you a while, don’t they? I finished The Mothers, Brit Bennett’s 2016 debut, a few weeks ago, and I thought about it for several days after. It pops up in my crowded head, still, every now and again, whenever I read about an African American church, or… Read More On ‘The Mothers’
Retirement always has been some sort of faraway concept to me, a fuzzy dream that may or may not contain beaches, golf, exotic vacations, lounging around in various stages of undress with your still-hot, always smiling spouse, and lots of time to volunteer, to read and to work on projects that you never really found… Read More Into the Great Unknown
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