Jack's Smack

We’ve managed to survive Thanksgiving (at least physically), for better or worse. Some of us stuck to the strict CDC...

For the last couple of years, my now-18-year-old son has been donating platelets at the nearby hospital. He began at...

I understand there is a great deal of controversy and divisiveness in our country — and in our world —...

Earlier this week, Kay Newton, our Connections Expert, shared a game with us. She took a word — in her...

Right about the time my son was three I began hosting Halloween. Recently, separated from my son’s Dad, I felt...

Yesterday was our state’s first day of early voting. For the first time in months, I woke up with a...

Find manspreading to be a problem on airplanes? This Jack's Smack shares how I used a readily available item in...

Nothing crystalizes our senses like a heightened dangerous situation. While traveling around the world in the late nineties, I was...

Sometimes it takes losing something to thoroughly comprehend its full weight and importance. Ruth Bader Ginsberg has ‘always been there’...

It’s fall and many of us are experiencing the first-time empty nest, or the return to school/return home from the...