I recently matched with someone on a dating app and we started ‘chatting.’ We graduated from the dating app chat box to exchanging numbers and texting. I thought this was a good sign. Our conversation was sparse and mostly was focused on trying to make a “dinner date” happen. I ...

When a lobster outgrows its shell, it wedges itself between two rocks and moves around until the old shell cracks and breaks loose, freeing the new shell and uncovering a bigger body. When a snake grows beyond the limits of its container, the skin sheds and leaves a translucent memory of what ...

Modern technology is wonderful, but it pales in comparison to the human mind. Recently I found myself on the Ohio Turnpike traveling through Northeast Ohio. Anyone familiar with their geography and who follows the weather even a little bit, understands that the turnpike there is right in ...

Is it just me or is OZ in the air we breathe? For the last 2 years we have seen 2 remakes of the classic story with some additions (The “Wicked” series). Personally, this past October, I helped with vocal supervision for “C.O.A.C.H.” homeschool group’s fantastic production of the ...

The skilled trades have become hot of late. That has many young people dropping plans to attend college. Meanwhile, some desk-bound professionals are said to gaze longingly at nearby construction sites. They daydream about trading spreadsheets for tool belts. They imagine becoming plumbers, ...

A brutal cold snap has gripped New York City and much of the East Coast, freezing streets, sidewalks -- and, it seems, any remaining sense of civic restraint. In Washington Square Park, a group of adults began hurling snowballs and other objects at responding officers from the New York City ...