Opinion

Easter Sunday is a burst of joy wrapped in purple cellophane. It is bright sunlight on tiny leaves and white tights on wiggly little legs and dye-stained fingers fussing with freshly washed hair.

In 2008, James Broadnax, a Black rapper and gang member, without provocation, killed two white men in Garland, Texas. After the murders, Broadnax bragged about them in a variety of ways, including writing some gangster rap lyrics that he kept in notebooks.

Hunting and fishing are like other sports in at least one area. There are more failures than successes.

Thanks to the * button on my TV remote, I’ve become an avid TV reader. The moment I land on a show I want to watch, my fingers toggle the CAPTIONS button. I settle in to read the latest episode.

Geneticists tell us that over 500,000 years ago, humans and Neanderthals separated into two distinct species, the humans being technically referred to as “Homo sapiens” and the Neanderthals being technically referred to as “Homo neanderthalensis.”

As I look back on this last deer season, it seems that bad news could be the theme. I hunted hard but my effort only produced minimal results. If I had to compare the hours in the stand to my harvest ledger, I would definitely be in the red.

The sounds of our world are changing. We’ve muffled the noises; changed rings to tones, buzzes to beeps, and bangs to cushioned snicks. Doors are closed and lives are insulated from unexpected or annoying cacophony.

The last couple of months have only had a few nice days and hardly any nice ones in a row.

Like other St. Louis metropolitan area residents, I heard about the Cahokia Mounds site for years but never paid much attention to that world-famous site until now. But recently I became curious about its history and until I did the research, I did not realize that there are so many things about Cahokia that I…

I enjoy eating alone. I don’t know what that says about me. It could be because I spent my childhood sitting around a table with four brothers.