Just after the holidays last year, I remember packing up the ornaments from our Christmas tree and thinking to myself, “When we pull these out again, we may have elected a new president.” 

I didn’t realize then that just a few months later, I’d make an almost unfathomable deal with myself. I told myself that despite A LOT of negative feelings about President Trump (for a...

We tell kids to tell the truth, but we don’t expect honesty from our leaders. Lying has become a way of life in this country … so much so that we don’t expect anything else from our leaders.

President Donald Trump lied to us about Covid-19 and his administration prevented the U.S. Post Office from mailing masks to every household in the United States in April and now the...

One of the things I remember most about Sept. 11, 2001, was the singing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building. 

I was a young reporter in Michigan, covering a special election in Macomb County held despite the terrorist attacks earlier that day in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. We watched the scene on a television tucked in a corner of the small storefr...

It was a trip to Walmart, of all places, that made me think that maybe, just maybe, we might be able to eventually pull ourselves up and out of this deep, dark place. 

It was there I saw a little girl gleefully standing in a cart as a woman pushed her through the aisles. It made me smile, but neither the little girl nor the woman could see it under the mask I was wearing,...

"Mommy?"

"Mommy?"

"Mommy?"

That's the soundtrack of a working mom's day during COVID.

And let me state up-front that I am grateful to have a job, to be working during this economic uncertainty. I am grateful that I am healthy, my family is healthy, and we have a safe home and enough food.

But, I'm completely stressed out too.

And it's no wonder. Since March 14, I have been hom...