I saw a post on social media challenging people to write a horror story in just ten words. Ha! Amateurs. I can do it in three. If you’re over 50, brace yourself. Turn on all the lights, be sure you have company and have some Ben and Jerry’s ready for the emergency you’re about to ...

On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill/Working Families Tax Cuts Act into law, and it's unfortunate that very few parents know this legislation provides the largest national expansion of K-12 education freedom in our nation's history. Beginning Jan. 1, ...

When I was in high school, a boy I had dated for a long time and I broke up, the way that high school relationships end. He decided to tell people we had sex, which we had not. A mutual friend told me what she had heard, and I responded that was not what happened. I remember vividly, as though ...

One day, just before this year's Fourth of July, I spent an hour searching through old posts in the Facebook group for my Libby (Montana) High School class of 1978. As the 250th anniversary of our country was approaching, I was feeling some nostalgia for the proud and happy celebrations of ...

Twenty-five years ago, many Americans woke up on September 12 to a country that felt different. The shock and grief were overwhelming, but so was the way people responded to one another. Strangers helped strangers, communities rallied around those who were hurting, and displays of American ...

The defining moment of the 2024 presidential campaign, it can be argued, came almost exactly two years ago, on Sunday, Oct. 20, when then-former President Donald Trump traded his suit coat for a yellow apron and worked the fry station and the drive-thru window at a McDonald's. His staff ...