I may have told this story before, but it bears repeating.  When I headed a teacher’s union, years ago, I defended a black member whom the school district longed to dismiss.  Her hair, greying enough to appear dusted with ash, surrounded a leathery face that seemed incapab

One of my computer gurus ran into trouble with his machine recently.  For two days, he bent over it, wondering what went wrong inside its “little black box.”  He finally fixed the problem, but  isn’t certain why it occurred.  I shouldn’t laugh because I depend on this guy�

Recently, Susan Stoner, my co-host, and I taped a few book discussions with our guests for the next season of Just Read It. (Click)  Our shows are 10 minutes long, as we know people are busy.  But after the camera stops rolling, conversation continues, especially if we had differing

Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice who died recently, labeled his brand of jurisprudence “originalism,” meaning he imagined he could go back hundreds of years and peer into the minds of our founding fathers as they drafted our Constitution.  (Click) For Scalia to perform as mi

I may have mentioned earlier that the house cleaning chicks at the retirement center where I live laugh at my flip top cell phone because it does nothing but allow me to make phone calls. Yesterday I found the pair of them on a  break, crouching against a wall.  Neither was talking.