Here's the deep golden noon hour come to rest on our place like a sleeping cat, long light and short shadows, ambers, greens and aging browns touching fungal splashes of palm-sized color (creams and pinks and raspberries) that Full Story
President above-it-all Put Barack Obama in front of a teleprompter and one thing is certain — he'll make himself appear the most reasonable person in the room. Rhetorically, he is in the middle of any debate, perpetually surrounded by finger-pointing extremists who can't get over their reflexive combativeness and ideological fixations to acknowledge his surpassing thoughtfulness and grace. Full Story
The ongoing national conversation about the future of health care has included thoughtful questions about quality at the end of life. Is aggressive medical care for someone at the end of life really in the best interest of the patient? Should society be obligated to pay for treatments that ultimately are of no real benefit to a person who is dying? Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME • On June 3, 1961, Clarence Gideon is arrested and charged with breaking into a poolroom in Florida. Full Story