For the three or so people who may have turned to this page last week specifically to read this column and wondered (hoped?) if perhaps I’d quit […]
Author: Katie McDowell, The Dominion Post
Check on your empaths, we are not OK
There’s a short animation video that’s gone viral lately, titled “The Life of an Empath.” In it, we see an all-white figure as he goes about his […]
Movie plans means reunion with some old (pretend) friends
For a lady with no social life, I have a wide array of friends. There are my baking friends and my makeover friends. My tattoo artist friends […]
Movie plans means reunion with some old (pretend) friends
Movie plans means reunion with some old (pretend) friends For a lady with no social life, I have a wide array of friends. There are my baking […]
Gunmen driven by hate more so than by mental illness
We go to bed one night disturbed about news of a massacre. And wake up the following morning to reports about still another slaughter. Last weekend, more […]
We all need that special unconditional love and comfort
Some months ago, I spent several days in Mt. Lebanon with our daughter, Noelle and our 10-year-old grandson, Max. I did the usual things grandmothers do when […]
Podcasts make exercise tolerable
As you may recall from a couple weeks ago, I’m deep in the middle of weight-loss hell. A full month of ingesting what feels like next to […]
July 22 letters to the editor
Insensitivity to human need what’s ‘disgusting’ Let’s be clear, in response to Michelle Malkin’s rage (DP-Thursday), no Lutheran organization creates people at the border that need help. […]
My newest frenemy is a weight-loss app
I am so hungry. Normally, I wouldn’t begin a column — or any piece of writing, really — by simply logging on and typing my current state. […]
There’s a new frenemy in town
I am so hungry. Normally, I wouldn’t begin a column — or any piece of writing, really — by simply logging on and typing my current state. […]