The Judgment By Linda Stowe It doesn’t take much for someone to decide what you’re about. One laugh—or in my case, the lack of one—can be enough.A while back I was sitting with a small group when a young man told an off-color joke. It landed well with everyone else. Everyone laughed but I didn’t […]

I swear, I should be wiser by now. Sure. I know more than I did when I was ten, or twenty, or any other decade that followed. But here I am, on the other side of the apex. And there’s still so much that I don’t know. It has become a primal awareness within me

I really like toys. I’ve liked them since I was a little kid. I don’t remember my earliest toy. It was probably a rattle or a ball or something. And as I grew, I’m fairly certain that the majority of my toys were hand-me-downs. These days, people call it regifting. Back then, we just stuck

So many of us love to read. Oftentimes, we pick our reading material based on other people’s suggestions. Well. Every year,  book editors from all around the world give their two cents about the best fiction novels of all time.  There are a hundred of these lists around, all of them different. But here is

Little did I know that the Soviet Union once had an all-female flying corps. They were called the Night Witches Regiment. The Soviet Union’s 588th Night Bomber Regiment was one of the most remarkable all-female military units of the Second World War. (They were later redesignated as the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment). The

AI By Linda Stowe (Editor’s Note: This was written several months ago as part of our Wordle Words) This morning, I listened to a New York Times podcast about the likelihood of AI taking over people’s jobs. Discussions about the impact of AI on the job market are in vogue right now, probably because of

A good day to take a breath and think about the good in the world. “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can.” — John Wesley “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”