Late tonight, after his attention-deficit/hyperactivity meds had worn off, my 13-year-old son Neil did a stupendously great job of spraying...

Well, well, well. California's Ahnuld, the Governator, supreme court has pushed the equal-rights revolution forward, and New York State ...

Sometimes the way society treats those who are different in some way makes me think we're still in the Dark Ages. The blog I Speak of Dr...

There are some female diehard Hillary Clinton fans on an e-mail list that I frequent, and they cry sexism whenever anyone calls Clinton on ...

Hillary Clinton has gone insane. She's implying now that one of the reasons she's staying in the race for Democratic candidate fo...

This is not a lighthearted happy-Friday or happy-long-weekend post. It's a good-God-in-heaven, my-country's-gone-insane post. United...

Warning: The page at the link I'm about to send you to contains language that is not safe for work. It's from a blog by university ...

Our 13-year-old, Neil, is very good with his hands, just like my husband, Ed. He's been helping Ed out in the wood shop a lot lately. Ca...

Who gives a damn about the value of human life, especially that of Latinos? Apparently not the U.S. Customs and Border Protection down in T...

My daughter, Becky, has found the perfect way to do her small part to stimulate the U.S. economy in the long run: She's going to use her...

Today is the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of Miss Snark . If you still miss her, go here to say so. If you missed the grand er...

I'm no Martin Luther King Jr., but I have a dream. My dream came the night of the news that the California Supreme Court overturned a ba...

Earlier today, I looked at the properties of a Word document—a book chapter—that I'm editing. In the Author line on the Summary tab, I e...

The massive 7.9-magnitude earthquake in southwest China that killed at least 10,000 has me worried. China is home to 6 of the many authors ...

This weekend, I have seen a miracle unfold, and it has filled my heart so much that I am overwhelmed with relief, happiness, and gratitude. ...

My daughter, Becky, traveled out of state with her husband and daughter recently to see her father, my ex-husband, who will soon undergo kid...

Blogging friend Imperatrix has posted about her favorite childhood imaginative play with her sister. That made me remember a drama that my ...

These books are in my stack of "just started" and "want to find time to get to": The Audacity of Hope , by Barack Obama ...

At long last! America has a presidential candidate who got there by being honest, by being intelligent and thinking for himself instead of b...

I'm in a video state of mind this week. And you have got to see this video of Edwin Starr 's 1970 hit song "War," with ima...