Eleanor Roosevelt rises far above her generation, a courageous champion for human and civil rights and a lonely advocate for making the post-war U.S. a true land of equality and freedom.
When author Matt Haig was personally "living in a state of intense but irrational fear," he conceived of a story in the year 2000 about an alien who voluntarily becomes a human and lives as happily-ever-after as an alien turned human can.
The plan last spring was to build a new garden shed and put a field fence around the garden.
As the summer winds down, at least in most parts of the country, I was thinking about one of my stronger childhood memories that defined this time of year for me.
