Faithful Departed: Feast of Holy Innocents
This is not the article that I intended to write. I was putting the finishing touches on the first draft while watching my 3-year-old niece…
read moreThis is not the article that I intended to write. I was putting the finishing touches on the first draft while watching my 3-year-old niece…
read moreMay 20, 1988, a mentally ill women named Laurie Dann walked into Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois, armed with three handguns and shot one boy in a washroom then entered my classroom. She opened fire on us, small children taking a test about bicycle safety. She killed one boy by the name of Nicholas Corwin and wounded four others before departing to a nearby home, shooting an adult who lived there, and then taking her own life. That day back in May 1988, everyone in Winnetka was a victim, everyone in the nation was a victim, and the country stopped for a moment of silence.
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read moreTo the world, he was known as “Macho” Camacho, but to my family, he was Héctor Camacho, just another member of the Camacho clan. Héctor…
read moreAs another year comes to a close, we’re reminded that all good things (debatable) must come to an end. Here’s our list of significant “endings”…
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