Opinion

“I’ll teach my dog 100 words. The first six words I’ll teach my pup are: Dig a hole? And fill it up!” My 75-year-old husband can still recite this book by Michael Frith by heart from the years and years of reading it to our three children during his nightly duty of bedtime stories. If your kids are like mine, they enthusiastically demanded the same book over and over again until you could read it on autopilot.

To be honest, for many people, Flag Day does not rank high in the hierarchy of national holidays.

My first book of the summer is Richard Reeves’s “Of Boys and Men,” which is published by the Brookings Institution, a center-left think tank where the author is a senior fellow. I mention this because the challenges facing boys and young men are familiar in conservative circles, but not so among the center-left and progressives. This book might be called the first serious-yet-accessible work from the left of center. I believe that it will change the debate on a chronic problem that has been ignored by a large swathe of American researchers, educators and policy advocates.

The Suzanne Crouch I have covered for more than a decade has never really been about politics — she has been about moving the state forward. That’s why the Suzanne Crouch running for governor has given me a bit of whiplash.

Mike Pence did a curious thing during the video in which he announced that—shock of shocks—he is running for president.

I’m a big “60 Minutes” fan. I remember watching the premier show in 1968.

Talk about setting the tone for the summer.

My mother never met a Black person she didn’t like.

As a cancer survivor, I know that one of the sweetest phrases in the English language is, “The good news is that we caught this early.” But hearing this phrase from an oncologist isn’t the end of the story. Rather, the “good news” is just the beginning.

I often forget that Pride celebrations began as and continue to be protests. How could I forget? There are two main reasons. First, the rights being fought for aren’t specifically mine, and second, the celebrations are so wonderful, so happy, so fun, it is a protest like no other.