Hi, the new bestseller by Michael Cohen, Disloyal, is one of the three best books I have ever read. It is not because of any great secrets about Trump—I am only in the fifth chapter. Michael tells about his guilt to his family, of his growing up as a high school student with his uncle’s […]
Why police shoot so many times to bring down a suspect By Scottie Andrew, CNN Updated 1:14 PM ET, Wed August 26, 2020 (CNN)When police believe a suspect could harm or kill them, they’re usually trained to fire as many gunshots as it takes to bring that suspect down. The shooting itself almost always lasts only seconds. […]
I have lived in California for over six years. My nephew currently lives in California, just 30 miles from Los Angeles. I am concerned about the fire situation more so than I have ever been. Colorado now ha its second largest wildfire burning along with three others, bit nothing compared to California, By August 19, […]
I graduated in 1964 from a small high school in Millersport, Ohio. We had only 25 in our high school class. But for such a small school we had an excellent group of classes: physics, trigonometry, advanced algebra, and even a course on Latin! My best class was English taught by Tom Buckingham. We also […]
STORIES OF MY CHURCHES When I was a sophomore at Ohio University, the Evangelical United Brethren Church gave me my first student churches. It was a five-point charge—five churches in very rural southeastern Appalachian Ohio. I preached at two churches on one Sunday and three other churches on the next Sunday. Some of the […]
INSURANCE HI-JACKING I am a Type 2 diabetic. Fortunately I get my medicine from the Veterans Administration (VA) without costs except small fees I pay to VA. But for the rest of Americans, the cost is soaring to as much as $1,200 a month. It only costs drug companies $10.00 a vial to produce […]
Get Ready for a Teacher Shortage Like We’ve Never Seen Before If we force teachers to return to schools during an out-of-control pandemic, I don’t know how many will stick around. This article appears in the Aug 18, 2020 issue of the New York Times By Kelly Treleaven Ms. Treleaven teaches middle school English. HOUSTON — […]
For a high school senior this is excellent journalism: researched. and full of pathos. I wrote the editor asking the NYT to offer him college scholarship to recognize his promise as a writer. “Remote Learning is Hard. Losing a Relative is Worse” by Isaac Lozno, NYTimes Aug 13, 2020 SAN DIEGO — Last month, I […]
Mental health problems run in my family. Both my parents and all five aunts on my mom’s side were alcoholics. So was Uncle Glen and my grandfather. Both of my sisters suffered depression and my step-brother died of a heroin overdose. One grandchild committed suicide, and a sister and a daughter had bi-polar disorder. Since […]
This post is by my cousin Linda about family trips to Kentucky Memories of Grandpa and Grandma Everman My earliest memories of Grandpa and Grandma Everman were probably when I was about 7 or 8 years old. We have a picture of our family in front of our car getting ready to leave the sprawling […]
