The White House—Still Exquisite After All These Years
Fifty-six years ago, Jacqueline Kennedy invited 80 million viewers into her home to see the restoration of the White House. Just 32 years [...]
Living Around
WAT-CAST: Marlene Warner Talks About Gambling Addiction
We love to gamble. It’s estimated that more than 80 percent of American adults gamble each year, that may include everything from playing [...]
Street Seens: Memorials
The approach of Memorial Day 2018 set off a chain of free associations. It went something like this. “Am I to celebrate the heroes [...]
Octo Observations: Values Unveiled by a Twenty Year Old
In this fractious era of 24-7 news coverage, we all become weary of headlines and heartaches, Thus, it was enormously refreshing to launch [...]
Toxic Culture: The “Pence Rule”: Protective or Antediluvian Behavior?
By Karetta Hubbard, Lynne Revo-Cohen, Gwen Crider, and Dr. Chris Kilmartin In March, 2017, the Washington Post published a feature on Karen [...]
Street Seens – Making Sense: A Recipe
“That makes no sense!” “What’s the sense of it?” Sense and Sensibility The Five Senses (sometimes including a Sixth, hinting at [...]
Street Seens: Children in the Grown-Up Seats
Decades ago, three adults, the surviving siblings of our parents, boarded an Aer Lingus flight to Carrickone in County Tyrone: Bill, SJ to [...]
The Night Belongs to the Predators
In 1980, the year of my 50th birthday, I spent a month in South Africa, the first two weeks of which were for a work assignment. My wife, [...]
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