I love definitions because they help focus the mind. For decades, we are said to have been in a culture war. As in any war, it helps to know one’s enemy. One online dictionary defines culture this way: “the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as ...

The latest, lawless migrant caravan hurtling from Honduras to our southern border is as organic as AstroTurf. The Central American trespassers now number between 2,500 and 4,000. Two weeks ago, slickly designed flyers disseminated on social media beckoned them to sign up for the latest ...

History is not what historians write. It is, rather, all of the things that happened in the past, from the mundane to the most spectacular. It is impossible to capture everything in any single, coherent narrative, and the actual, factual occurrences that everyone faces, the real history as it ...

Around the first of the year, I like to scroll through the documents on my computer, seeing if any need to be in a file together, or maybe deleted. This year, I found a document from 2008 about black bear tracking dog licenses. There are no notes to indicate why I would have saved this ...

Q: I really struggle with worrying about ... well, almost everything. Do you have any practical suggestions for controlling my anxiety and keeping my perspective? Jim: Let me turn back the clock to a well-known author and speaker, Dale Carnegie. Although he died in 1955, his books and ...

When my son was growing up, we had a white German Shephard. It was not the ideal dog since we lived on a farm. That beautiful white fur was often covered with grease or animal waste depending on where she was. When I went to the hospital to have a baby the dog refused to eat. I had been the ...