I wanted to write this column a few months ago, when a Facebook post by now-President-elect Donald Trump caught my eye. The Facebook post was about a Trump headquarters location that had been burned by arsonists. The photo was terrible and the alleged crime itself was...

When I was younger, I was politically involved and enjoyed working on local campaigns and writing the occasional opinion column on issues that were (and are still) very important to me. At that time, I had this idea that people who disagreed with me ideologically were...

Fall is in the air, and for me the fresh breeze and falling leaves have always brought with them a sense of the past, of good memories, of old times and places. The smells of fall – ripe apples on the trees, bonfires, dried leaves – bring back wonderful memories for...

When my sister Megan and I were little, we had a small family of sheep. (This was almost twenty years ago. Megan is now married with four amazing children, but I am single and clearly still hung up on these sheep.) And yes, this blog post is about literal sheep. If...

A while back, I worked for a TV news station. One Friday evening as I was preparing to work a weekend shift publishing content for our website and social media pages, an editor asked me to write a story and post it on our social media pages. The assignment was not...