October 2, 2020 A map geek looks at Winchester I’m a map geek. As a kid, I used to spend hours studying road maps. I also drew them. I would invent entire cities by carefully drawing lines on…
September 4, 2020 Life’s transitions reveal our inner selves My 59th birthday is now just a month away. As I prepare for my last year of what most folks call middle-age, I’ve been doing a lot…
August 28, 2020 Who do you trust? What follows is an actual — albeit lightly edited — portion of an online conversation I had last week with a social media correspondent. I’ll call…
August 21, 2020 Remembering the eclipse of 2017 Today marks the third anniversary of the solar eclipse of 2017. That event was visible in its totality within a broad swath of Western Kentucky.…
August 7, 2020 John Lewis’ legacy of passive resistance I was a kid in the 1960s. I was too young to scarcely notice, much less comprehend, the tremendous changes occurring in the US. I did have…
July 17, 2020 Changing team names put in perspective Our priorities are out of whack. This week, the owner of the NFL football franchise in Washington, DC, announced the organization would be changing its name.…
July 3, 2020 Trump’s biggest failure News broke last weekend that Russia has been paying bounties for the lives of coalition troops serving in Afghanistan. According to the New York…
June 26, 2020 The election day disaster that wasn’t In Tuesday’s print edition of The Sun, my friend and colleague Chuck Witt warned against credulously accepting all information found in media outlets. He…
June 19, 2020 Remembering my “Pop” I’m a proud second-generation Greek-American. My father, George Koutoulas, came alone to the U.S. in 1955 when he was 19 to work in his uncle’s…
June 12, 2020 On Juneteenth, let’s be ‘better together’ This week, I was educated on an American holiday known as “Juneteenth.” Before this, about all I knew about the holiday was that it occurred in…
