I have intentionally avoided mentioning anything on Father’s Day for years. It’s because my dad passed away on Father’s Day in 2002, though the date then was the 16th instead of the 19th. I’m not a father, and I probably will never be one. I’m an only child so I’m not an uncle either, although […]

It’s not often that Christmas is on a Saturday, which means that many people in the United States would have the day off anyway. But it is a Saturday, and one expects that whether or not one believes in Christmas they’re possibly spending some time with their families this weekend. Not their every day family, […]