While popular entertainment is usually about teens and other young people finding themselves, getting old is a different story. Many in my generation look back and ruminate on where they have been, what they have done and the meaning of it all...
Though the Covid, the nation’s first pandemic in just over a century, may seem like a distant memory, it caused a national stress that reaped an incalculable physical and mental harm on several millions of our people, especially our children that...
The usual response to the question, who were the people at the foot of the Cross, is the blessed women and the Apostle John. The three Mary’s and Jesus’ favorite follower were not the only ones there. As Mark’s Gospel tells us, Then the soldiers...
How did we get here, a Southie kingpin asks one of his minions in Boston during the bussing and school boycott in the summer of 1974. This quote from a character in Dennis Lehane’s latest book, Small Mercies, has no real bearing on the recent Barbie...
In May of 2019, the Journal published what might have been construed as an obituary for the moribund chain of bookstores. Barnes & Noble still struggles to keep the customers coming but, in the long run, it seems to be a losing battle. I used to...
As the Bard of Avon questioned several hundred years ago in Romeo and Juliet, What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Personally, I think it would mean a great deal. Stinkweed, Skunk...
For the last half of my life, I have read about forecasts of robots eliminating millions of jobs. With the recent advent of AI or Artificial Intelligence those predictions have attained a distinct reality. They seem to be threatening several...
I used to have a treadmill but I eventually sold it for lack of use. I never really enjoyed using it. I would rather take a good nature walk in the fresh air. However, I think the treadmill is a perfect metaphor of something more...