Black Friday is aptly named. Everyone’s dark side is out when the last nerve is drilled down trying to buy that “smart” toy, a tie, or the last leather bag in saddle brown. Now big sales on Thanksgiving splinter the holiday further. Is the football game on the wide screen TV the only glue holding […]
Father’s Day. For those with loving fathers, it’s a time of gratitude. For others who don’t know their dads, it hurts. A single mom told me, “I’ll never get married. I’d rather raise my kids alone. I don’t need some man making my life miserable.” I said, “Maybe you feel that way because you’ve never […]
The dead have badges and I stop to read them: 1941 World War 1945, Women’s Relief Corps.147, The American Legion and more. Small American flags flutter next to soldiers’ graves at the Milton (Mass.) Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day. At a glance souls, long gone, wave across the acres, “Over here!” “I served!” […]