Our tendency is to take the easy way out and force ourselves to forget depressing thoughts, as a survival mechanism. But even as we fool ourselves

Meanwhile, who better to name STAR Person of the Year 2025? When he was still new to the mined field of local politics, he had learned that the best politicians seldom decorate newspaper covers.

The deceased's husband has never been disciplined, or taken to the orderly room.

In a recent dispatch to a writer friend from our days of California dreaming (several years ago he too had returned from L.A. to...