Today’s sermon: There is no such thing as normal, except maybe a standard for body temperature.

Keep washing until hope shines through

After reading Robert B. Parker’s novel Looking for Rachel Wallace, published in 1980, I fell hard for the creator of Spenser.

Politicians of the Reagan era scuttled a time-honored tradition. They gutted the media doctrines of fairness, equal time and anti-monopoly practices.

So symptomatic of his life, it seems there’s not been much notice this year of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s greatest authors, Herman Melville.

When fall comes down off the shelf