It isn’t often that I wish I was less sensitive but yesterday was one of those days. Yesterday, I was blindsided by a stranger who singled me out as the…
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She said I was negative and I hooted with happiness. For someone who’s been characterized as Pathologically Positive, that’s really saying something. But when it comes to Covid-19, being told You’re…
Every time the gong of empathy is sounded, that measure of kindness will reverberate endlessly along the wavelengths of our universe. This is a true story that encompasses the whole…
In my life, I’ve had many wonderful Christmases. I’ve also had a whole lotta really rotten Christmases. There was only one that was both. It was Christmas 1975. Sixteen weeks…
When the heart is full, the pen falls quiet. And so it would be this Mother’s Day except my gratitude is too gigantic to not be expressed. I couldn’t live…
Two years ago, I shared the story behind my love of Valentine’s Day in a letter to my friend David Parrish. I told him that I had always adored the…
Andy Slimak is tall, fair and handsome and once a week at Starz Ballroom Westlake, he’s all mine. I appeared at his studio for my first ballroom dancing lesson in…
Liz Kineke with author/editor Gary Jansen Journalist @Liz Kineke wears a cape, and her superpower is opening our eyes. If she wore a hard hat, she would operate…
Everywhere life takes me, I cannot help but notice people being kind to one another and to me. I call it camerado-ing, the verb form of camerado. It has long…
Every prisoner is quoted in his own words, however all last names have been omitted to shield the privacy and security of each. It’s been 173 Christmas Eves since Scrooge…