By the time you read this, week one of high school football, incredibly, already will be in the books. High school football kicked off last week with several games to “preview” the season Thursday night, followed by the regular exciting Friday and Saturday night games under the lights, ...
Other than TV news, sporting events generally are among the few things that blare from the living room TV screen in my home. I frequently comment to my husband about how lucky we are to have a common love of sports. If we didn’t, come game day (i.e., every day), things could get mighty uncomfortable in our home. Don’t get me wrong. Household comfort levels still become questionable this time of year. You see, I grew up in western Pennsylvania, a fan of the NFL team with a steel curtain defense. Hubby grew up in northeast Ohio, rooting for a team that, for reasons I’ll never ...
By the time you are reading this, I already will have returned (God willing) from a trip down South to visit dear friends with whom my husband and I get together about once a year. Together, there are six of us — three couples — who became friends decades ago. New technology — Facebook and group text messages — make it much easier to keep in touch these days, especially when we all live hundreds and hundreds of miles apart. That’s nice, but it’s still no comparison to getting together for what has become an annual reunion tradition. We all have been blessed with our health, ...
I hate weather stories. Allow me to clarify. I don’t hate the kind of weather stories that involve news reports on floods or tornadoes or bomb cyclone snow storms. Rather, I hate weather stories that say, basically, “It’s hot!” in the middle of July. Or that say, “It’s really ...
It’s impossible to believe it was just a coincidence that a prominent Russian investigative reporter somehow came upon assailants that left her brutally beaten in Chechnya the day she and her attorney arrived there to attend the trial of a mother of two local activists who have challenged Chechen authorities. The terrifying incident began when a vehicle carrying journalist Elena Milashina and her lawyer Alexander Nemov was blocked by several cars just outside the airport there, The Associated Press reported earlier this month. They were attacked by a dozen unidentified masked ...
The U.S. Supreme Court in recent weeks put an abrupt stop to President Joe Biden’s promise to write off many student loans that Americans have borrowed but not yet paid back. Americans are in stark disagreement about whether or not writing off loans at taxpayers’ expense is the correct approach. Like many political issues today, this has divided America. Likewise, it has divided my friends and co-workers. I’ve heard some people offer impassioned arguments in favor of student loan forgiveness. They say they’ve seen first-hand how student loans have weighed heavily on many ...
