It’s Autumn, when birds display their aerial murmurations and unusual birds show up at our bird feeders. Murmurations are the patterns that birds create when
Yes, as the President tells us, the midterm elections are about Trump. Vote as if he is on the ballot. But before you cast that
I just finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the next selection in my Great Books Club. I read it several years
I think I know how Sisyphus must have felt. You remember Sisyphus, don’t you? In case you don’t, he was the cunning and deceitful King
So I’m at JT’s, my personal trainer—only he’s not all that personal. By my count, he’s about 50 people’s personal trainer, and I’m sure we
There is a new fad called earthing. The theory is that as we are separated from the earth by noise cancellation, rubber-soled sneakers, and multi-layered
“Because there’s always another story to tell…” I arrived in Washington for the second time in the fall of 1979. We must have looked like
Years ago, I broke baby Jesus, and this past Christmas I broke the angel. The cow placidly observing the manger has been missing her right
For most of medical history, pharmacological research rarely left solid ground. Aspirin came from the bark of willow trees, penicillin from mold, and Taxol from
It takes a special person to run for Congress as a Democrat in Maryland’s First District. A Republican has held the seat since 2011, and