By Mildred Trouillot “Tell No Lies” by Barbara Rhine has all the elements of good fiction – a suspenseful story line, complicated love interests, complex characters...
By Conrad Baldwin Did California’s courts issue thousands of void and unenforceable restraining orders between 1999 and 2007? Did those void orders cause the false arrest...
Everybody has that one friend. She’s the person you call in the middle of the night because you don’t know what else to do. He’s your...
This is the year when you’ll finally do it. Your New Year’s Resolution is to find love. You’ve vowed to open your heart and your mind...
Everybody needs a hero in his or her life. Somebody to look up to. Somebody to want to be like some day, to follow and admire...
Three-and-a-half steps. Visualize it: that’s how big your home is. Back against the wall, three-and-a-half steps until you can’t go anymore. Arms straight out at...
Your child loves his teacher. It’s something you’re grateful for, because that makes it easier for him to go to school. Every morning, he...
Death and taxes. That’s what your father used to say were the only things in life that you could count on. Neither one was escapable; both...
This year, your teachers say you’ve changed a lot. You’ve grown a couple of inches, which is the first thing they noticed. They say...
What can you say about tragedy? When it’s imminent, you brace yourself and hope to come out unscathed. In its aftermath, you mourn and, eventually, you...
Beginning in December of 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was one of the most important catalysts for radically charging the American civil rights movement. A language...
You’ve read a lot of signs like that in your life, online and real-time. Save the whales or the environment, penguins or tigers, fish, trees, or...
You are entitled to change your mind. You don’t have to apologize or admit you were wrong. Just act on your new convictions and, sooner or...
The history books you had in school last year almost put you to sleep. They were filled with dates and stats, dead people, lost battles, and...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez It’s never been done before. It’s never been done, it’s never been tried. Maybe it’s never been thought of, either,...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez, LLC Your wallet is almost totally empty. The same goes for your checkbook. There were two credit card bills in...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez, LLC They should have called you Super-Fly. Yep, that’s what you were, dancing in front of your TV every Saturday,...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez Among the usual fliers, bills, and donation requests in the mail last week, there was something you haven’t seen in...