“MY FINAL RITE OF PASSAGE”
There are significant moments in our lives that mark transitions from one stage of maturity to another. For example, when I was in my late teens, I recall being
“POST-IT NOTE INVENTOR DIES”
(This obituary appeared in the May 28, 2021 issue of “The Week” magazine. While I don’t usually borrow items in their entirety for my blog, I did find his story
“WORDS I AVOID”
Wally Armbruster, according to the wording on the cover, “manufactured” (as opposed to “published”) a little paperback that he titled “A Bag of Noodles” (Concordia Publishing, 1973). It’s a
“ONE LAWYER AND THREE NUNS”
This is not a defense for one or the other side of the immigration controversy. Rather, it’s to let readers know that I learned about something that’s been going
“A NOBLE, BUT SQUELCHED, EFFORT”
Fourteen years ago I traveled to North Carolina to give a kidney to my sister, Kris. She and “George” (the name she gave to the kidney for whatever reason)
“A DIFFERENT KIND OF FOOD FIGHT”
[NOTE: This blog appeared in the “Monday Morning Mailing” (“MMM”) for April 26, 2021. –KK] On Saturday, when I started to work on this “MMM,” I had no ideas
“Little Things Mean a Lot”
My wife Evelyn has physical therapy sessions three days a week at a facility about 15 minutes from where we live. The sessions are just shy of an hour,
“Shoved Down Our Throats”
It came up again last night. Every time it comes up, the guilt in me resurfaces. That age-old excuse that parents use for not teaching their children the
The Stimulus Quandary”
Our Government stimulus “checks” have arrived (technically, direct-deposit). Each of the three of us got our $1,400, including 19-year-old daughter Karlyn. Make no mistake – it’s nice to
“The Suez Canal, Eggs, and Baskets”
I had no idea that we depended so much on the Suez Canal. After the news broke about the Empire State Building-sized cargo vessel being stuck diagonally in