My good friend Kati gave me a wonderful holiday gift idea this week and I’d like to share it with you. We were lamenting the economic crisis and commenting on its proximity to the holidays. We wondered about local charities and if they would suffer...

I grew up in, and around, Montgomery, Alabama. My mother worked for George Wallace, Jr., when he was a government official and, for a while, she and I lived down the street from George Wallace, Sr.'s mother, Mozelle. Yes, Grandma Wallace. Race...

"Get over it." That's what my maternal grandmother, who was born in the middle of the Great Depression, said to me today. I was telling her about my anxiety regarding the economic crisis and the upcoming elections. "...