ALPENA - Ten years ago my husband Scotty and I moved here from Sacramento, California where we had lived for the previous decade. The land of sunshine, governators, and some of the best Mexican food that has ever entered my belly had lost its luster and we just wanted to be back in Michigan ...
Wanting independence for our children is a dream that every parent has before children are even born. We dream of enjoying their successes and being involved in the creation of their own family and career. However, circumstances and situations arise and the structure of your child’s ...
My sister-in-law's dog, Molly, died recently. She was a sweet, graying Portuguese water dog, one of the gentlest pups I've ever met. She displayed a propensity for stealing food off the counter, refused to walk in heat, rain or cold and had an unhealthy obsession with eating dirt, but ...
To paraphrase Mary Rueffle in her book Madness, Rack and Honey, art is a violent act. It is meant to disrupt, to shake, to reshape. And, yes, that violence can be beautiful—the act of stopping and looking at a high-resolution photo of a bee on a flower is, in fact, that piece of art ...
I am an Iran hardliner. But I'm struggling to understand how other hardliners can be so credulous about President Donald Trump's leadership of this war. It's as if you were stranded by the side of the road and accepted a ride from an obviously drunk driver. Earlier this month, the Wall ...
It's not just Israel. One of the least convincing arguments of opponents of the Iran war is that it is a conflict initiated by the Jewish state for its own benefit -- the U.S. is just along for the ride. This view not only discounts the U.S. interest in defanging Iran, but neglects that ...