The old beige rotary phone rang. It was somewhere in the late 1970s. I answered, “Courtroom.”  Pause. Michael, is that you?  Familiar,...

Andrii Dankovych stares out his window toward the east where the fighting is. He contemplates his future. And whether his country will...

“Give me a sturdy lad from Vermont or New Hampshire, who has tried it all,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his 1841 essay on resilience,...

It was in August of 2014 and I was lounging on the couch soaking in the news. The story of the day on my go-to channel, MSNBC, was the...

The United States Census Bureau says that today nearly 18.5 million children grow up in homes without fathers, giving the United States...

He picked up his plate and with deference to the others said, “I’m going to eat with my friend.” The mostly white-haired men at his...

I cleared my throat, dimpled the Windsor knot in my tie and knocked. A TV blared on the other side of the door. It was January 20th,...

I called out the man’s name, then did a sniff check of the waiting room. The briskness of Fall had softened the ripe smell of body odor...

“McGee!” he yelled, digging his fingers into my girdle pads, jerking me backwards. “I said, line up off the right shoulder of the tackle....

Don Ranly and colleagues wrote The Writing book in 1984. At that time, Ranly was a professor of journalism at the University of...

Some thirty years ago an advertisement ran in the Phoenix Business Gazette for a stringer. In journalism, a stringer is paid by the story...

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