Collecting My Thoughts

I've enjoyed listening to Becket Cook's podcasts. He's a celibate man who gave up the gay lifestyle 12 or 13 years ago after bec...

I try to use Brave for my search engine, but occasionally I get thrown into an MSN site which feeds me all the latest dirt on celebrities. ...

"Church leaders have been pleading with Pelosi for years, inviting her to repent and return to full communion with the Church. But she ...

We were big fans of the TV show Closer and the character Deputy police chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, so of course we watched Kera Sedgwick in ...

It's a wonderful day to sit on the deck with a cuppa and enjoy the blue sky and rustling leaves with a good book. But because it's s...

Sunday, August 25, was the 85th anniversary of my parents’ wedding. They died in 2000 and 2002, having celebrated together 65 years during t...

It's not a pay gap, it's a mommy gap. A choice gap. "43% of highly qualified women with children are leaving careers or off-ram...

I heard this week that Lucille Snodgrass,  the mother of my high school friend Nancy Snodgrass Falzone, had passed away.  She was living at ...

I noticed a comment about the CW TV show "My crazy ex-girlfriend" (written, produced, and acted in by Rachel Bloom), so I looked i...

A new study led by UNC School of Medicine researchers concluded that patterns of white matter microstructure present at birth and that de...

" 'Gamification' means turning something that previously was not a game (for example, learning to use a library) into one. The ...

Seems to be my week to rant about mothers. Yesterday is was mom walking across Tremont Road and using her phone on a gorgeous day outside ig...

A mother replies to an article in the Washington Post about single moms. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/18/the-unbe...

It gives me pleasure to report on a federal health/poverty/race program that actually is meeting its goals—Caring for 2.  I’d never heard of...

“The economic struggles of male workers are both a cause and an effect of the breakdown of traditional households . Men who are less success...

Gary's foundation

Remember Dan Quayle--how he was ridiculed for taking on the Murphy Brown single mom story line about 20 years ago? Oh, the press had a ball...

Two things came to mind when I read this story (op-ed really) about Lara Logan's assault in Egypt and her "come-back kid" atti...

Childhood friend Jon Martin sent me this. And I remember his Mom. She raised two nice sons. WHY GOD MADE MOMS Answers given by 2nd grade ...