Save the WHAT?

AP photo from foxnews.com, weapons from a gun buy-back program in Trenton, NJ.It’s enough to make you puke. As if North Carolina’s super-majority right-wing legislature hasn’t done enough to flaunt its power and make life harder for many of its...

Disparity and despair

The current income disparity in the U.S. is enough to make most anyone despair — at least those outside the top ten percent. The rich have made out like bandits during the recovery from our most recent greed-induced “great recession,” while poor and...

Heads up …

“Green,” by Nathan SawayaHere’s a double-entendre for you — haven’t we all felt like this guy at some point? As if we wanted to just rip our heads right off? And the other side of the heads up: if you’d like to see some amazing art...

Older adults?

Like many other people (especially older ones), I took note of the announcement that cognitive scientists have tested a video game that they say “can improve the short term memory and long term focus of older adults,” according to an article in the New...

One less character …

My cousin Rae Stribling died over the weekend, and one of God’s most unique people has made the transition from corporality to memory. Rae as a girl, along with my father (top) and my uncle Tom. Rae was my grandmother’s sister’s daughter and a...