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How do I love perimenopause? Let me count the ways

Menopause is so hot these days. All the cool kids are doing it, a coincidence that marks the last time I will be counted as either cool or a kid. I suppose I’m not, technically, in menopause. I’m in the preemptive stages — something I have learned is called “perimenopause,” from ...

We’d better start thinking about future jobs

The big headlines about job losses tend to focus on the big employers. Layoffs at UPS, 48,000 — at Intel, 24,000. Amazon is cutting up to 30,000 workers, and Target, 1,800. These pink slips are being dropped largely on white-collar positions. The thinking is that artificial intelligence ...

Looking to navigate a spiritual harvest

One of the things that I have most enjoyed about my commute to work in Lima during the Thanksgiving season is passing small farms and viewing the fields that are being cleared after the fall corn harvest. Much of the farmland is vast and such a peaceful sight to behold on a sunny day when ...

Broken windows policy can be found at the top

The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing. The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is owned by the American people, not any current inhabitant. It’s true that other presidents ...

AOC poised to be Democrats’ Trump

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is both radical and unqualified to be president. But she still has a clear path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination. On Tuesday, Socialist Zohran Mamdani will likely become the next mayor of New York City. He wants a rent freeze, city-owned grocery ...

Democrats want to keep borders open — most American’s do not

Who said this? “If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation.” The speaker went on, “Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn’t do it.” It was Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in characteristic ...