Oh dear, I actually had to yell out into the newsroom, “Is prostitution illegal?”

Hmm, this is a hard one for our governor (until March 17). Now that I am no longer a spring chicken, I understand why men, even married men, fathers and also women, will sometimes resort to paying for sex.

Sex is a drive, not the passenger - as our culture tends to think. Relationships are complicated, emotions run deep and some people make a nice living selling their bodies...

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Amazing that we were given two kidneys when one would do. It made this organ the perfect for transplant experiments.
March is National Kidney month. As with most of our internal organs, the kidney is something we give little thought to, until of course it doesn’t work properly. Then wow! I mean kidneys are the filters.

My father and his twin Jack tend to be opposites in everything. Jack was a clean cut, Dad a bit of a wild man. Jack was tall, Dad short. Jack had good teeth, dad not so much. Jack’s hair thinned early, Dad held on much longer...

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I had written the following piece after reading about the incident in a Syracuse firehouse, where a recruit had fashioned a noose that offended someone in the group on the grounds of racism. Then, I thought better, I probably don’t have a right to be offended myself, because I am white. Probably shouldn’t say anything – or I could be considered a racist.

But after reading my cohort Ken Jackson’s piece in last week’s City Eagle, “Twisted Rope,” I thought better.


Whose noose is it anyway?
When I think of the noose, beyond my own neck, what first comes to mind is white men and women swinging in Boston because of religious differences. Mary Dyer, whose memorial was erected on Beacon Hill in 1959, was hung in 1660 for being a Quaker...

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