To the editor: There was a time when truth mattered. When leadership meant humility, and public service demanded accountability. I remember that America — the one that didn’t tolerate Watergate, that investigated swiftly, wrote books, made films, and ultimately saw a president resign. ...
What is a meaningful walk to you? There are many ingredients that make such a walk for us, right? Those ingredients include a first walk, a last walk, a walk with someone special, a solitary walk and a walk for a cause. If you are a parent, you know what’s it’s like to see your child ...
In my final race of the summer season, the last of the week’s cloud cover hung overhead as the antsy crowd of runners counted down the last ten seconds with the announcer and the half marathon began. More than five inches of rain had fallen in the preceding seven days, but the gray ceiling ...
What is it about food that makes us want to eat it? What circuits are triggered when we look at the foods we like? How do the sensory properties of food influence our choices of what to eat? There are no simple answers for this complex function. What follows is just a piece of the ...
Eating is a central part of the human experience much in the same way that swimming is a central part of being a fish. My wife and I recently visited relatives in the Kansas City area, so we decided to swim in the waters of the region’s food scene. But first we had to take care of some ...
To the editor: Charlie Kirk was just one of many pundits (on both the right and left, but mainly on the right) who have discovered a great way to make a living by saying outrageous things to stoke fear and rage against “them.” Tyler Robinson is just one of several assassins (on both the ...