At this moment I am ashamed to admit I was once a police officer. — I’m sitting here bawling like a big ole baby. So many of us, when there’s nothing left to hope for or expect, start calling for our moms, as Tyre did in the last cognizant minutes of his life. Cops can tell you, many, many people call for their mothers when…

This is one of those stories that won’t come easy. It’s genuinely one where I’ll have to “sit down and open a vein.” It’s very personal, and maybe I should not speak publicly about it, but I need to, and since I’ve gotten older, I have no desire to hide…

Thoughts about our grandson. For reasons I don’t want to go into here, my husband and I found out early in 2013 that we would have to take over the raising of our oldest grandson. There was no choice except to let him go into foster care. And with the shortage of foster homes…

We were checking out at Walmart today, and I couldn’t get my debit card to work. My husband, Ray, took over, and the card purchase went right through. He said I was putting my four-digit pen in backward with the last two numbers first. When I thought about it a…

Where are my people? Where are the current stories? I found a few friends on the newsfeed, but lots of people’s old stories. People I didn’t even know when they were here years ago. I wish I knew the plan because surely there is one — and I just don’t…

Medium obviously doesn’t care what its writers want or don’t want. They ask a question like what we think about allowing AI-produced copy, and I would be willing to bet almost everyone who responded said it was an awful idea — or something like that. In other words, I don’t…

We decided tonight to try a different place for dinner — a place in our neighborhood that we had noticed but had never tried. It advertises both Greek and Italian food, and I had heard some years ago that it was pretty good. We got there when only one couple…

Stop being the star of your own soap opera. — That may sound harsh, but I went through a great deal of my life — too much — acting as if every bad thing that happened to me was, or should be, critical to the whole world. Worse, I made a couple of little drama queens out of my daughters…

Despite expectations and a historic number of votes, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) has been unable to get the needed 221 votes to become Speaker of the House. The 20 republicans refusing to vote for McCarthy are mostly a bunch of nutwads, but McCarthy is no shining example of integrity, either…