Opinion
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Listening to the Heart: What survival and science are saying
Recently, I learned of two very interesting stories that I feel highlight, from the perspective of survival and science, the very true adage: “Never solve a temporary problem with a permanent solution.”
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Small steps to make a big change
Without realizing it, I’ve grown older. I don’t enjoy the same things that I did when I had just reached adulthood. Instead of spending my time locked into a video game or doom scrolling through TikTok, I find myself wanting to connect with real life. I want to go to…
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Orbs among us
First there were three, then five, now eight missing top UFO scientists—and it’s not just this news that has conspiracy theorists reaching for their tin foil hats—there have also been mysterious sounds and lights in our night sky. Not to mention President Trump has ordered full alien disclosure and former…
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Money can’t buy me love
The Bible says money is the root of all evil and the Beatles claim you can’t buy their love, so just what does it mean to be like King Solomon with hordes of gold lying at your feet? Most of us will never experience the world looking askance at us,…
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Removal of federal data affects us in our hometowns
Federal data on rising hunger, on long term trends in maternal and infant mortality, information about preparing for disasters – gone.
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Fiscal storm is about to hit us
RALEIGH — You may not be interested in federal deficits, but federal deficits are very interested in you.
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Nationalize Amazon
There are many lessons we could take from the last decade of American politics, in which our country has degenerated further and further into an oligarchic hellscape. One I hope a majority would agree with is that current levels of wealth inequality are incompatible with political democracy. There are various…
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Without us, the sun also rises
I’m an early riser. I have been since early adulthood — long, long before any hungry children, or a certain German Shepherd, came along to command my early-morning attention.
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A cautionary winter tale
While living in upstate [Redbud] New York, or the snow belt, this Southern girl learned a few things about winter weather.
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Southern snow days
As a child growing up in the American South, every winter was met with an eager anticipation that there could possibly, maybe, with divine providence, be a snow day.
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Come fly with me
I absolutely dread flying. Traveling solo has its perks — you move at the beat of your own drum — but you also have to deal with sitting next to a stranger on a flight. Not bueno.
