My husband and I attended Monday night’s town council meeting in Brunswick. It was well attended, despite not being well publicized. We arrived at 6:30 p.m. to a packed room and saw many familiar faces that represent many facets of our community. This is one of the things we love about Brunswick. Near the beginning of […]

THE CONVERSATION — A few years ago, I had the opportunity to go on safari in southern Africa. One of the greatest thrills was going out at night looking for predators on the prowl: lions, leopards, hyenas. As we drove through the darkness, though, our spotlight occasionally lit up a smaller hunter – a slender, […]

Guess what? If you see a smutty, sexist, obscene, vulgar, or racist bumper sticker attached to someone’s vehicle and you dislike the words thereon, there’s not one thing you can do about it. Nothing. And that’s the truth, folks. Want to know why?  I’ll tell you. Messages on bumper stickers are protected by the Constitution. Whatever […]

There are probably many Americans who thought this day would never come. More than a few people, myself included, were skeptical that Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice possessed the strength and courage to overcome their traditional habit of risk aversion. Instead, the criminal justice system is going to do battle against one of the […]

Set aside the endless flood of punditry and look through the eyes of jurors at the indictment of former President Donald Trump for trying to seize his reelection based on false fraud claims and violations of election laws. When the case finally reaches its conclusion, 12 jurors in Washington, D.C., will decide if Trump is […]

Once upon a time, there was a farmer named Brown who took a wife and lived in a dell. He was a pillar of the community and a tower of strength to his family, though he was only knee-high to a grasshopper. Size, however, didn’t amount of a hill of beans to him. He believed […]

It began with a meal of takeout pizza, a week when time stood still, as one of our six guests from California marveled on the third day. The cast of characters in this midsummer play included our nephew Toucalit, his wife Nancy, their son Andy, their nephew Mateo; our niece Maggie and her daughter Noelle; […]

Russia, the largest country in the world, is twice the size of the U.S. with less than half the population. Comparatively, although having only four times its populace, Russia is 28 times larger than Ukraine. Once being the principal component of and, to all intents and purposes, the Soviet Union, Russia lost a lot of […]

Years ago, one summer, I was editing a column by the Washington bureau chief of a now long-vanished news syndicate. He was skeptical of the federal government in all its phases, so what he had to say surprised me. The Senate was debating what eventually became the Clean Air Act of 1990, and then-Majority Leader […]

Savants. Do you remember when there used to always be a pejorative before the word “savant”? Well, that’s not politically correct anymore, I am glad to say, and so today the dictionary defines “savant” as: “A person who has an exceptional aptitude in one particular field, such as music or mathematics, despite occasionally having significant impairment […]