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I listened to an interesting interview on NPR’s Morning Edition today. Rachel Martin spoke to Brendan Steinheiser, a Republican strategist and early Tea Party organizer, about how liberal activists are using some similar tactics in their resistance to the current administration as they [...]

“A moderate? Ha! I’ve seen your posts. You voted for Clinton.  You’ve been vocally anti-Trump. You must be a crazy liberal!” Well, no, actually, I’m not. My mom use to tell me that way back when… your vote was private. You kept it to yourself.  Now, after [...]

Anne. Our houses were just 3 blocks apart in West Akron. Almost daily I would walk to the bottom of Mentor Road and she to the bottom of Upper Merriman Drive to the railroad tracks that were a path to both our houses. We’d walk along the tracks, over tressels and back into the woods […]

People often ask me why I chose, after 50 years, to stop eating meat. It’s a question I get mostly at work dinners, and it is usually asked when someone is apologetic about their ordering meat when I ask for meat-free options. Other than a select few, almost everyone in my life eats meat. [...]