by Ken Sehested | Dec 6, 2019 | Opinion
My mentor and friend, Walker Knight, has died. It wasn’t a surprise – his health has been poor for several years. For him and his family, it is likely merciful. Acknowledging as much, though, doesn’t ease what appears to the living as a certain dimming of the light....
by Ken Sehested | Nov 15, 2019 | Opinion
Another school shooting. Sirens wail. First responders race. Video shows the now-common recessional, with rifled law enforcement escorting a parade of students from school grounds. So oft repeated it’s now a kind of ritual liturgy. Then a repeat of the predictable...
by Ken Sehested | Nov 11, 2019 | Opinion
Veterans Day doesn’t lend itself to commercial attention like its first cousin, Memorial Day. That’s probably because it’s squeezed between two other cash-registering holidays, Halloween and Thanksgiving, and it does not coincide with a car-cultural observance like...
by Ken Sehested | Oct 31, 2019 | Opinion
My early memories of holiday festivities are varied and mostly pleasant. But Halloween stands out with the most distinct memories because it involved an evening of roaming (without adult supervision) in homemade costumes throughout the small town where I lived,...
by Ken Sehested | Oct 21, 2019 | Opinion
Brazil is getting more attention in recent months, primarily because of the massive fires raging in the Amazon rainforest, most of which is within Brazil’s boundary but also stretches into eight neighboring countries. While such fires have been a regular occurrence...
