Month: June 2025

The breaking news as I write this is about the killing of a Democratic lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota by an assassin masquerading as a police officer. The spouses of two other state representatives were wounded as well. This awful news against the backdrop of what is happening across the United States and in…

I’ve been absent from writing because I took a break and went to the French Open for two weeks, both out of my appreciation for tennis and as a much needed respite from the unrelenting absurdity of our politics. Unfortunately, my trip was a virtual one, watching the matches on television and keeping up with…

During a gully washer of a rain storm the other day, I holed up with Shelby, my 4 year old black Labrador Retriever, and we talked about a lot of things, that is, I talked a lot and she mostly listened. I’ve been fortunate to have had a lot of canine companions in my life,…