The risk posed to the 21-mile corridor could affect more than 27,000 residents and the stability of 28,000 jobs.
After more than 56 years, I can still smell and taste the rubbery things.
I admire these guys for very different reasons.
I’ve heard people say that human beings are the only creatures that know they will die.
It seems I got to be a geezer awful fast.
Like Teddy Daniels, a former candidate for Pennsylvania lieutenant, who is prominently featured in a series of doomsday, deep-fake ads on Facebook and Youtube.
I could call up any large chain store in a city and talk to someone without being told to call corporate ownership on the other side of the country.
As the poet Theodore Roethke once wrote: “In a dark time the eye begins to see…”
Now I am the one with the terminal cancer. I’m where my mother was.
Not since I was 14 years old, I have been enthralled by languages.
I have said and done many things of which I am not proud. That is, I am no golden bird cheeping about human frailties from some high branch of superhuman understanding.
They catch us unprepared.
Of course there’s irony here in that LinkedIn is asking writers — who, after all, make their living by writing — to help “educate” a technology that would automate their jobs.
I have always considered it a strength, not a weakness, to consult with people with whom we vehemently disagree.
I can’t shake the conviction that a sense of perpetual aggrievement is one of the key components of the engine driving our national estrangement.
I’m reminded of the steep price we all pay for ignorance.
Perhaps my brain injected a bit of humor to cover the shock. But I felt the gut punch.
Here are other songs I’ve heard over the years that have had this effect on me.
I have been thinking about phrases that we use without considering what they actually imply down deep, or whether they…
Like many of you, I have a wish list for the coming year.
