By now, every alert North Dakotan must know about last week’s rather unorthodox take on religious freedom by the state House of Representatives. Republican leaders in District 24 (Valley City area) took to the Web to sound the alarm: A Muslim, the president of the Bismarck Muslim Community Center, was going to offer the daily invocation in the House chamber. …
In nearly 50 years as a professional writer, I have never done this before: Fuck. Yes, you have just witnessed the very first time that I have typed that word. Ever. It’s not quite the first I’ve thought it. (There was that incident when my husband lost one of his hearing aids in the back yard, then found it … …
Not hiring older workers is a great strategy … especially if you don’t plan to get much older yourself. I borrowed that line from one of my heroes, New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz. But it’s been on my own brain lately, too, especially after bumping into two of my much-loved former students in recent days. Of course, age being what …