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Devastating week leaves us weary, worn and wondering
Friday night, at the end of a long, draining day, I put on some music. Up came “The Peppermint Twist” by Joey Dee and the Starliters. I found myself enjoying it far more than usual. It’s so simple. So happy. It begins the way many songs from the late 50’s and early...
Hey, Gov. Whitmer: Let the curtain rise on movie theaters
Now that our governor is finished with her shark week, perhaps she can bite into a small but persistent inequity in our COVID-19 shutdowns that, frankly, has gone on too long. Movie theaters. They have been closed in Michigan, with the exception of the Traverse City...
Masks or computers a losing battle for Michigan schools
I work with kids. A lot. Many of them don’t speak English. The best tool I have, when we need to communicate, is the three or four inches between my nose and chin, and the two or three inches between theirs. If they don’t understand something, I push up a...
Burying the unclaimed dead shows the greatest respect for life
A small chain of human decency, a quiet, under-the-radar effort involving government workers, funeral home directors and cemeteries oversees a final kindness for unclaimed dead.
Our next attack on COVID-19 must be smarter
Ever since coronavirus blanketed our country, it’s been “many” versus “some.” Many people will get sick. Some will die. Many people wear masks. Some do not. Many people closed their businesses. Some lost them forever. Today we stand on a new precipice. We tried...
Anti-Semitic posts — and tepid reactions — should enrage us
We must consider why DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic comments drew less outrage than other types of hateful language.
Young people, bars and the coronavirus. What did we expect?
And then the doors open. You can plan all you want, test all you want, inform and educate your staff all you want, but customers are another matter, and young customers another matter altogether. The coronavirus that keeps tripping up our country grows almost...
Shunned by other countries, we long for the day to expand our horizons again
There will be no first glimpse of the Eiffel Tower. No strapping on a backpack for a trek through the Alps. No choir trips to Italy, no families posing next to the guards at Buckingham Palace, no couples honeymooning on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Today is the...
Here’s a wish: Spencer Torkelson in Detroit Tigers uniform in 2020
Since Spencer Torkelson was playing baseball before he can remember playing baseball, why not let him join the Detroit Tigers whenever the season starts? After all, there won’t likely be any minor leagues, not in this strange and vacant year of coronavirus....The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
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