In college I had a poster, “Not to decide is to decide." I thought of all the decisions I put off, the things I didn’t do. If I knew I should make a decision and didn’t, I already was making a decision. That same saying can be applied to decluttering and organizing. If we haven’t done a ...
My year as the president of the Rotary Club of Alpena is coming to an end. On July 1st I step aside and let the next club president take the reins. Before agreeing to be on the ballot for the position of club president, I was debating on whether to stay in the club at all. I was burned out. ...
Interviewing for a job or competing for a promotion just got fairer. In a unanimous ruling on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court leveled the legal playing field, saying that everyone deserves the same protection from discrimination, including straight white women and men. In the six decades ...
"Here we go." "I knew it would come." "This won't end well." Those were my initial reactions to President Trump's announcement that he had activated the California National Guard and to sources on Monday saying Marines would serve as backup. I'm not claiming much prescience. Like his ...
Now that Trump's tariffs have been halted, his One Big Beautiful Bill has been stymied, and his multibillionaire tech bro has turned on him, how does he demonstrate his power? On Friday morning, federal agents from ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ...
CAM RANH, Vietnam — The story sounds like a "Mission Impossible" script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha — known to everyone as Mr. Ha — decided it was time ...