Columns

As Women’s History Month celebrations continue, my column this week focuses on Dr. Dorothy Height, who former President Barack Obama called the “godmother” of the civil rights movement.

There are two big pitfalls of which buyers and sellers of real estate should be especially aware.

When I attended high school and college during the 1950s, about half of all Americans regularly attended church services on Sunday. Today, according to a recent poll, the figure is 22 percent. And another 21 percent of Americans count themselves as being among the “nones,” those who don’t identify with any religion.

The late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin embraced a philosophy that perfectly captures the official Catholic position on human value: the “consistent ethic of life,” more commonly known as the “seamless garment.”

The St. Patrick’s Day spirit has arrived, and we sure are in need of Irish levity.

Before there was “Sesame Street”…

Even at my advanced age (approaching seven decades of decrepitude), I have kept my boyish figure. And I have always been stylish because my wife buys my clothes, which I sometimes stick in a drawer or hang in a closet and promptly forget about, only to discover them months later with the tags still attached.

My grandma could play any song in any key. She was a tiny thing with rounded edges that bounced on the piano bench as she rippled keys up and down the keyboard. The entire piano bounced with her.

The firetrucks blared their sirens again Saturday afternoon going down the main road in Ottawa.

The contentious fallout from “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams’ alarming YouTube tirade encouraging whites to “get the hell away” from Black people had me yearning for a simpler time, a time long before “cancel culture” infiltrated the news.