Hono­lulu after Pearl Harbor: A report published for the first time, 71 years later

This story in today’s Post points out heroism that’s around us – a very rare example of putting one’s self in harms way to protect others. Officer Rodney Chambers put a death grip on the grenade  [more...]

Today I got an email about one of those websites that tracks people you went to school with; it was a page for the Jefferson class of 1985, and of course I started poking around to see who was listed. And there was a  [more...]

You should see me — grating lemons and making a lemon pie, which has just come out of the oven with slightly browned peaks of meringue; now sitting back on the couch, on which I have placed two fluffy pillows  [more...]