The last time I wore a hat, aside from ugly winter wear on below zero days, was the beret in my featured image. Read More

When Jon Bon Jovi kicked off the evening’s entertainment singing Here Comes the Sun as the Florida sun rose in the background, I felt the optimism that comes with a sunrise after a dark and stormy night. Read More

My message to my grandkids and their peers is to stand up for what you believe in and then to go out and make some noise. I will always be proud of you for any “good trouble” you create along the way. Read More

My father instilled an appreciation for art in me, filtered through his lens of what constituted good art. Read More

Losing a pregnancy is a very low time in any woman’s life. I’m writing to tell you that you survived, and you thrived. Read More

Growing up, I was taught that the proper reply to being thanked was, “You’re welcome.” Read More

I fear I’m talking about what we find on television to pass the time as we head into our ninth month of the pandemic. Read More

4:20 PM central standard time. Darkness descends. No sunrise until 7:17. Dark dominates for fifteen hours. Pandemic fear grips me. More than 311,000 people dead. Isolation. Zooms — too many zooms. News — too much news. Books begun and abandoned. Sunday Times unfinished. Too cold to visit outside in Chicago. 34 degrees numbs fingers and… Read More

Thinking back as Retrospect asks me to do, I had only two job interviews in a 25-year career in education. Read More

For someone who loves to write, being a terrible speller used to be my Achilles heel. Read More