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People take part in health challenges all the time, especially as New Year's resolutions. We count our steps, track our water intake and count carbs and calories with the intention of being healthier in the new year. There's one more health challenge I want you to consider for 2025 -- the Anti-Racism Challenge.

According to UCLA Health, "...Read more

Louisville, Kentucky, got their Christmas present early this year. The Department of Justice, Louisville Metro Government and Louisville Metro Police Department have signed a Consent Decree, an agreement to enact significant, systemic reforms to policing in Louisville.

In 2020, the murder of Breonna Taylor sparked protests across the country ...Read more

We put up our Christmas tree on Nov. 9 this year. Right after the election. I cannot remember a time when I've been more eager for the holiday season. We have holiday favorites playing on Alexa and in the car when we're driving around town. This holiday season feels like a post-election balm, a well-timed return to everything the season ...Read more

En route to visit family in South Texas for Thanksgiving, we stopped in San Antonio to enjoy the riverwalk and take our 9-year-old son to the Alamo. Most kids in America learn the story of the Alamo in history class at some point. If you're a student in Texas, the state is really particular about how that 1836 battle at the old Spanish Mission (...Read more

While leaves changed color and floated to the ground, I talked to tree enthusiast Bill Hanavan, a retired gastroenterologist and co-founder of Heights Tree People in northeast Ohio. He believes everyone deserves a little shade -- from a tree, that is.

Hanavan started planting trees when he lived in his old house in western Michigan -- old as in...Read more

We've all heard the story of the first Thanksgiving. The plight of pilgrims traveling from England to establish Plymouth colony in the new world. How they survived a brutal winter and then celebrated a successful harvest with Native Americans the following fall in what would become known as the first Thanksgiving. Holding this feel-good story up...Read more

Turbulent times can make people feel helpless and hopeless, but we have more agency than we might think. We can still choose to live life on our own terms -- whatever that means for each of us individually. This is what the McCaffertys did. "So many people have fallen prey to this idea that what they do doesn't matter and that we're all doomed ...Read more

Too many American voters thought Donald Trump was the better choice for president. By doing so, voters put their name on their values and showed the world what this country really stands for. And why not? It's about time we dragged all of that American ugliness and fear out of the darkness and into the light so we can see it for what it really ...Read more

Sitting at dinner in a local restaurant, I saw breaking news come across the TV screen near the bar. It read, "Washington Post says its editorial board is done with presidential endorsements." This was on the heels of LA Times editors resigning over the decision not to endorse a presidential candidate.

It's interesting to me that this is ...Read more

One of the great things about being a parent is getting to witness your child become who they are. The process can be scary, though. Kids try on different personas in attempts to figure it all out while in an environment that is inherently unkind: school. Peers can be brutally honest and not very kind. Parents naturally want to protect their ...Read more

Not everything you try will be right for you. But you'll never know if you never try, and you'll learn a lot either way. Don't let the uncertainty stop you.

I quit my day job as a newspaper editor of the opinion section. People are disappointed and some are even angry, but I have to do right by myself, and forge my own path according to my ...Read more

By pure luck, I traveled to Walt Disney World with my husband and my son just last week between hurricanes Helene and Milton. Milton made landfall in Florida as a category 3 hurricane. We planned this vacation months ago according to our son's fall break from school.

This trip was our first family vacation that didn't revolve around also ...Read more