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I took a breather from work the other week and trotted off to visit a friend. While there, I spent some time in the North Carolina mountains. They were beautiful. Winding roads. Soaring slopes. Mountain streams and lakes. The paintbrush of fall touching the trees. Nestled amidst this beauty is Connemara, the last home of
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A friend of mine has an amusing tale of a heated fight she got in as a child with her then-teenage brothers that culminated in her accusing them of getting periods. Needless to say, my friend didn’t end up with the upper hand in that particular sibling squabble. But maybe she was just ahead of
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Like many Americans, I worry about the state of the planet and try to make a positive impact through decisions in my day-to-day life. But I also am nagged by the feeling that I often get it wrong, even though I analyze environmental problems for a living. Concerned about plastics in the ocean, I renounced
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It seems like everyone wants to be a victim these days. Terms like “microaggression” and “safe space” came out of nowhere a few years ago and quickly entered common parlance. But how can you be a victim when you are part of the institution that – for the past 1,000 years – has represented the
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Why hasn’t the #MeToo movement protested the close connection between the pornography industry and IVF clinics? Most clinics provide pornography so that men can quickly provide a sperm sample. It is an essential, if grubby, part of the clinic’s services. Not a lot has been written about this issue, understandably perhaps. A tell-all feature in
READ MORELast week our guest on a Roku TV interview show that I co-manage was Diana West, a longtime Washington Times editor and the author of a provocative book “The Death of the Grownup.” Our interview turned quickly in what, for my cohost, was an unexpected direction with Diana’s bold defense of “Blacklisted by History,” M. Stanton Evans’
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