Americans – including 80% of those who support Donald J. Trump – will consider his tariff moves a failure before the end of 2025 if they remain unchanged. Democrats generally hate Trump; for Republicans it will be disappointment. Why? Over the past 60 years, average wages have gone down, but so has the price of […]
Read More →On Nov. 15, 2023, my heart rate hit 148, and an overly assertive nurse friend nagged me to get it checked. After 20 hours in the emergency room, I was told by a cardiologist that my heart had an easily fixable glitch and not to worry – and by a pulmonologist that I had stage […]
Read More →Koda was just a dog. In 2004, I adopted a puppy from “Pet Rescue by Judy” while still in the post-emotional slipstream of a divorce. His litter name was Maine, but it changed to Koda as the only Disney name my youngest daughter and I agreed on. Divorce is a lonely business, and you don’t […]
Read More →Originally published in The Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 23 2017 If children are the future, public education nourishes hope. It’s the great social equalizer, because it identifies and rewards each child’s potential and ambition. Or it was circa 1970. Today, Florida’s schools destroy hope teacher by teacher. Their recent loss: my 30-year-old daughter. Most Americans (75 […]
Read More →Trump didn’t do it on purpose. It’s not his “great again” calling card, and it’s not a belief that my country could be trampled by a nonexistent army of rogue immigrants. Reason 1: Taking achievements for granted It’s become clear that decade after decade and generation after generation, the United States of America traveled the […]
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