RovinCrone

After living in large cities all my adult life, in 2007 I moved to El Dorado County in California.   Though the scenery is beautiful ...

Though we don’t travel with the goal of shopping—in fact, we travel in part to escape our consumer society—we’re not completely immune f...

Some people have always been rude and crude, but their behavior has become more widespread during recent years. Encouraged by the disgu...

For   the past few decades, pediatrics experts and educationists have gone back and forth in their advice to parents about electronics. ...

We stand upon the brink of a precipice. We peer into the abyss —we grow sick and dizzy. Our first impulse is to shrink away from t...

DEATH PENALTY On November 8 we Californians will vote on two conflicting propositions about the death penalty. Proposition 62 would rep...

Beginning a tour of the Kam Wah Chung shop The unpretentious little building on a side street in John Day, Oregon, doesn’t look lik...

When my father-in-law died soon after our marriage, I was introduced to the Jewish custom of a family’s “sitting shiva,” or staying home ...

The younger generation—Millennials, Gen X, or whatever they are currently calling themselves—may have it right. They rent homes instead o...

We lay back lazily on our chaise lounges and gazed at the northeastern sky, enjoying one of the many perks of the RV life: When the Pers...