Column: When you lose Scrabble, turn your rage into haiku, family beware
My sister is my best friend, and I hate her. I'm not feeling too warm and fuzzy about my mother, either. Scrabble will do this to a family. So will...
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Column: Loving land mines best avoided on Father’s Day
Dear Sal: Father's Day 2021. We came. We celebrated. We blew it. My siblings and I love our Dad, but on Father's Day, we couldn't help ourselves. Each of us...
Column: I never learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. We should all learn about it now.
A personal look through American history, in five acts. Act I My father loves history. Name a battle, and he'll list the generals. Name the treaty, and he'll rattle off...
Column: After a year of COVID-19 isolation, I can’t help but feel a bit envious of those productive millennials
Here's what my friend Seth sent me via email at 11:48, which meant I saw it as my coffee was brewing. If you thought that you used your COVID isolation...
Column: Have big life news to share? There’s nothing like an old-fashioned game of telephone.
It took a game of telephone tag to remind me how much I missed the kooky aspects of my pre-COVID life. Remember telephone tag? One person whispers a sentence into...
Column: Apartment hunting in a college town requires a different kind of immunity
I thought getting the vaccine would be enough. Enough to launch me, slowly, back into the world. Enough to embolden me to re-engage with people beyond my pod. Enough to...
Column: Business is booming for this local comic book entrepreneur
Yesterday, like I do every day, I made coffee and called my sister. "How sick are you of walking past empty storefronts?" "I hate it," Betsy said. "Walking downtown, there's...
Column: Looking for some long-distance bonding time? Turn on the TV.
Two weeks ago, I got the following text from my daughter Nessa: "You HAVE to watch Promising Young Woman and then we HAVE to talk about it." Maternal Background Info:...
Column: For some suburban residents, maple tree tapping taps into the pioneer spirit
Here's what I love about my friend Bruce Boyd. He's smart enough, and dumb enough, in exactly the right ratio. But Sal, you ask, what is the exact right ratio?...
Column: The number of COVID-19 deaths can seem abstract until you talk to those who have lost loved ones
Yes, I'm losing my mind. I wake up, stretch and mostly stay inside. I read a little, write a little, and watch way too much CNN. I practice social distancing...