Dawit is doing very well. His language improves all the time. He takes speech once a week to help him learn English sounds. The transition from Tigrinyan to Amharic to English is not easy.
Hello and welcome to the Newton Leroy Gingrich Moon Base, the United States of America’s first fully functional moon colony and condominium complex! We’re sure you will find living here to be enjoyable and relaxing, without hordes of former homeowners clogging the streets like in your neighborhood back home.
Despite being a short month, February has a long list of odd holidays.
I hate Sunday mornings. I should love Sunday mornings. I get to sleep a little later than a weekday and I really enjoy going to church each week. But the time period after waking up and before getting the kids to Sunday school is incredibly stressful for me.
This year, the GOP is working hard to find a candidate conservative enough to please tea party voters and right-wing radio hosts to take on Obama in November. The problem is that “playing to the base” is ineffective at best.
As I grew older, and got out on my own, my mom still telephoned me and recommended what she called Campbell’s Penicillin. And she usually suggested that I fix some sort of mild and innocent-looking sandwich — one that wouldn’t make my eyes warn my stomach that something offensive was coming.
Listening to “Chimes of Freedom,” the new 76-song Bob Dylan tribute to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International, is almost a stream-of-consciousness experience. You sometimes feel like you’ve accidentally stumbled into the most way-out coffeehouse in some alternate-universe Greenwich Village.
The political system used to be bad. Now that it has been fixed, it is even worse. Money has completely flipped the system. It used to be “to the victor goes the spoils.” But with our current system, without a lot of spoils, you will never taste victory.
Campaign financing has become such a farce that it takes two comedians to explain it best. For months, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert has been telling viewers how super PACs, the evil progeny of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, work.
Columnist Loretta LaRoche laments that chilling out seems to get more and more difficult. She says idle time isn’t necessarily wasted time.
The greatest athlete I ever watched on television in my living room with my father, while begging to change the channel back to some monster movie, was bowler Don Carter.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination before Saturday’s primary in South Carolina. That’s too bad because he missed a fun debate Thursday night.
Born in New York City and raised in Russia, the classically trained Elizaveta bills her sound as “opera pop,” which is enough to make anybody nervous. But don’t worry.
Never drive a little sports car in a big snowstorm. To paraphrase a popular current television commercial, you’ll end up in a roadside ditch.
The Massachusetts-based Kingsley Flood, founded by frontman Naseem Khuri, first made a splash in 2010 with its debut album “Dust Windows,” a rollicking, literate collection of Americana-style tracks that got the group more than its share of local notice.
Jon Huntsman is dropping out of the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. I can’t say that I blame him.
To national Republicans, Massachusetts voters are a punchline, except when we elect a Mitt Romney or a Scott Brown. To the national media, our opinions are discounted because we’re not a swing state.
Columnist Loretta LaRoche says she’s fed up with several thing, including constipation – of the mind and the body.
Everyone knows he had a dream. But he had so much more than that. Everyone knows he went to the mountaintop. But that was just one of his stops. Everyone knows he was a civil rights leader. But Martin Luther King Jr. was also a pastor. It just happens that he was called to pastor his flock through the valley of racial injustice.
According to the seventh annual year-end forecast of “key trends” put out by the marketing firm JWT, “marriage isn’t an essential checkpoint for women.”
