it’s hard to find a candidate’s positions. Attack ads like “My opponent will take away your Second Amendment rights” should make us ask for specifics. Will he eliminate the Second Amendment, take away my bump stock so I can’t kill a lot of people with my hunting rifle, make me ...
I want you to know that I routinely deal with questions like “Where’s your dog? You should have a dog!” and “They let you work here?” and my personal favourite, “How can you possibly have a life? How can you be happy?” ...
It's another film I was rattled by as a teenager, in 2006, and would never really see horror the same way afterwards. The concept is simple: two men (played by Saw filmmaker Leigh Whannell and Cary Elwes) wake up shackled in said decrepit room with nothing but their wits and a rusty...
I always cherish the quality time I can spend with my sons, especially when it’s a shared interest: On that first day coming out of Le Puy there were many signs warning of someone who would attempt to send us in the wrong direction – and we were lucky enough to meet him (I’m a...
or at least to see it in new ways, plus it’s been a joy to be near my family. And this year I also embraced motherhood – or perhaps it’s embraced me – so much so that I can actually say I’m enjoying the heinous toddler years. My crazy kid makes me love and laugh a litt...
When you notice stress rising at some random moment, find the story. It can probably be summed up in a sentence. What’s the story? That the IRS will find an error in my return and send me a bill I can’t pay. That everyone will hate my article when I publish it. That I’ll ...
I am troubled by both sides here, by any “race” (if there is such a thing) that sticks with their own no matter what. I guess we are still more bound by the confines of color than I want to admit. 4. CHILDREN OFTEN ARE MUCH WISER THAN ADULTS. On Election Night, my son said...
If I climb up a short way behind this gravity-defying pile of stones in the Welsh mountains that I now call home, I can view a dozen lofty peaks three times higher than the eminences of Barr Beacon and Castle Ring, which were the most elevated points in my childhood landscape of South...
I have a younger brother who can draw quite well, and my mother was always doing jigsaw puzzles and paint by number sets, but I was never really drawn to anything in the visual arts. Of course, there was the requisite art projects in school.I enjoyed them, but had no desire to try ...
"Ask about My Son." "Because He lives, I can see Tomorrow." Michele's tomorrows are coming when she will be back with the ones who love her, who sent her here to a world in decay to find out what went wrong- why didn't the Kryder's Trust reach all three of their beloved gran...