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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My husband and I stood for quite awhile outside the gorilla enclosure at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park during our visit there last month. We were fascinated by members of the gorilla troop’s interactions with one another. Six-year-old Leslie, the youngest, was especially entertaining as she ...

It was 14 years ago when my husband and I planned a weekend trip to New York City, and my parents eagerly agreed to keep our sons while we were gone. We drove the kids to western Pennsylvania to drop them off at the home where I grew up. At the time, my dad’s beagle had recently delivered ...