“Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can. Seldom found in women, never found in man.” — Jonathan Morris When Tina thanks me for being patient while waiting for her to go somewhere, I often quip, “My middle name is patience.” She laughs because we both know that that’s far from true. Back in […]

Having two of my semi-grown daughters in college simultaneously has truly been an adventurous journey for our family – the kind where you enjoy amazing new experiences, but your expensive designer luggage gets stolen, and you have to request an extra air-sickness bag. For the first few months of their college lives, our daughters called […]

Sen. Susan Collins’ already famous response to Donald Trump’s indictment – “I don’t know what to make of it” – speaks for many, especially the news media. Despite the incessant chatter about the 2024 presidential race – who’s in, who’s out, who’s ahead, what the hourly polls say – the way forward seems cloudy, if […]

It’s budget time again – and the one President Joe Biden proposed is a beaut! Biden’s budget proposal is the kind of thing only a progressive could get enthused about it. It grows the executive branch’s regulatory power, takes total yearly spending to nearly $10 trillion by 2033 (up from just over $6 billion now, […]

There is no silence like the silence of a house where a child once was. Marge LaRue should know. Last fall, her grandson, Nicolas Elizalde, was shot and killed outside Roxborough High School in Philadelphia. It came just after the end of a junior varsity football scrimmage between players from Roxborough, Northeast Boys High School, and Boys Latin Charter School. Nick was just 14 years […]

Right now, the land echoes with songs such as “Power in the Blood” and “Because He Lives,” but past performance assures me that the ditty waiting in the wings is (apologies to Alice Cooper) “God’s Out For Summer.” Yes, countless people (whether unchurched or nominally religious) are counting down the days until Easter goes hopping […]