A Haphazard President, a Befuddled ‘Contender’ TROUBLE It is difficult to write of the mundane qualities of a political campaign during a national health crisis unknown in this America of […]

Unasked Questions THE WAY IT IS Well they certainly don’t look alike. But here they are being compared as representatives of myth-tellers and populist embracers. The tall, bottle-blonde, bronzed, red-tied […]

A Conspiracy Theory THE DEMOCRATS This is written before the results of the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential primary are known, and before the primary in South Carolina and the caucus […]

Looking for Betsy “I’m a writer, blogger, photographer, Mother and accidental country girl whose recipes have to please my husband, my children and ME. Welcome to my frontier.” So says […]

SEARCHING When did it start…this disturbing division in America which we feel and read and talk about? Because to blame it on the real estate developer and TV reality show […]

Wanna teach? Ed Schools Emptying Out Enrollment in teacher-preparation programs has dropped by more than one-third in the past eight years. The report comes from an education think-tank, the Center […]