Death — or the distinct possibility that you may be facing it — is a sobering experience. And I get that we’re all going to get there sooner or later. I have no illusions about that. By the time you reach your 50s, you’ve seen and likely dealt with a lot of it. The carefree thought of ...

“Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honesty is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you” — Billy Joel, “Honesty,” from the 1978 album “52nd Street” I don’t think Billy wrote that song with politics in mind, but he might as well have. As ...

Let’s hope we’ve all emerged from the annual post-Thanksgiving Day, tryptophan-induced coma by now. Whatever you do today, you don’t want to sleep through The Game. With any luck, the annual grudge match will be over by the middle of the second quarter and Ohio State will be on its way ...

“People … not a big fan.” A friend and I stumbled upon T-shirts featuring that phrase, and we couldn’t resist buying them. Mine eventually disappeared. I believe it suffered the same fate as my favorite red T-shirt paying homage to President Ronald Reagan. By “fate,” I mean that ...

It could be your health, watching your children grow and reach their potential or the fun times you had with friends when you were young. There are many things we experience as we age that we wish we could do again. An important one for me was always being around my extended family during ...

A day after Donald Trump’s improbable comeback from political oblivion, let’s look at how he did it. Two things: First, was it really improbable? Second, did he do it all by himself or did the opposition party assist in handing Trump — perhaps the most polarizing figure in American ...