Today's Opinions

To appreciate this little story that I will eventually get around to telling, you need to know a little about my maternal bloodline. You see, long before real-estate ads latched on to the word “fixer-upper,” my maternal Grandmother was one. She was a woman who put her faith in action verbs, however, not in defining nouns. “Go fix up,” she’d say to my mother. “Fix your face” and “fix your hair” were variations on the same chord in a minor key. Mother repeated the refrain to me, and I in turn to my three daughters.

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell doesn’t say things very often that make me laugh.

But in a recent op/ed piece, McConnell said that during his August recess from Washington, he didn’t meet “anybody who thought a government takeover of health care was the answer.”

The statement shocked me and, as the kids say, LOL.

It was never more clear to me that Sen. McConnell and I run in different circles.

Every year since Sept. 11, 2001, the nation has paused for a few moments to remember the horrible and tragic events of that day.

Unlike so many other memorials, that take place year after year, the tributes and remembrances that take place on the anniversary of 9/11 do not seem to diminish as the date slides further into history.

But there are people who work hard each year to keep the memory alive of all those we lost in the consciousness of all Americans.