Your old bicycle just got a great new reason to rollFebruary 13, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free PressMy first bicycle had training wheels. My second was a Sting-Ray. Remember those? With the banana ...Read More
The Games were once cozy, quaint and snowy; what happened to Winter Olympics?February 6, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, SportsI attended my first Winter Olympics nearly 40 years ago in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, a city about the size of Wichita. ...Read More
‘Bernie’s Mom’ survived the worst, proving the resilience of the Jewish SoulJanuary 30, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free PressIt was 80 years ago this month that 15 high-ranking Nazi officials met in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin. ...Read More
If we could go back in time, what would we tell the first American with COVID-19?January 16, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free PressTwo years ago this weekend, a 35-year-old man traveling home from Wuhan, China, became the first American ...Read More
Those we miss at the holidays drive our need to be togetherDecember 26, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free PressMy parents were married on Christmas Eve. In a restaurant. It was the only place they could afford. The owner ...Read More
Santa already paid his visit to college athletes this yearDecember 19, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, SportsI know the real Christmas is later this week, but another Christmas arrived this past July. The one for college ...Read More
All I want for Christmas … is to make that earworm stopDecember 12, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free PressEvery November, she begins her attack. By Thanksgiving she has me surrounded. Come the first of December, she has ...Read More
The echo of preventable gunshots at Oxford High School will be heard foreverDecember 5, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free PressWhen an Oxford police deputy saw a 16-year-old football player crumpled on the floor, bleeding and dying from the ...Read More