I grew up in the 1950s on a hill overlooking a railroad yard in western Pennsylvania, where my grandfather, two uncles, and my father all worked first as firemen, and then as engineers. In our town, the railroad wasn鈥檛 just an employer, it was the economy, the daily sounds, and the clock that ...
Q.: I hate snow days. Wait a minute, let me explain. I hate the kind of snow days we have now. I don鈥檛 care if you call them remote learning or flexible instruction days or remote instruction days, they are horrible! I鈥檓 the kind of student who needs to be in the same room with my teachers. ...
So far details of a settlement of the Greenland affair are scant to non-existent. Hours after his blistering speech attacking western European democracies and the global balance of law, President Trump announced a "framework of a future deal" for the "piece of ice," his own labeling of ...
I come from a family where grown men cry. My dad cried at the drop of a hat. Don鈥檛 get me wrong, it was not in a melodramatic way. It was that quiet, involuntary welling up that happens when a TV ad lands perfectly. You know, like when a soldier returning from war surprises his kid at school, ...
President Trump and Republicans are in a world of hurt politically. If the times were normal, the congressional elections this November would warrant an easy call: the House is going to flip, from a slim Republican majority to the Democrats being comfortably in charge. There are a number of ...
Q. I noticed that most of your columns deal with problems teens bring to you. I thought it might be refreshing and bring you a smile to know I鈥檓 doing very well. I just finished my fifth college semester. I have a healthy relationship (you taught me to hold out for that), I get along with my ...
