A blog about Kansas City politics and culture.

As far as I know, most of my people were farmers. On both my parents' sides, my Scandinavian ancestors came across the ocean looking for better topsoil. I know immigrants came for many reasons-- to ...

In a 1997 Profile for the magazine, he looked for Donald Trump’s soul. Where it should have been he found—nothing.

Ideology is ironically trumping science in the heat wave cooking Europe. America’s progressives should take note.

My husband, Peter’s, birthday is this week. Peter does not celebrate his birthday. Peter doesn’t think the day of his birth is anything to celebrate. He’s happy to celebrate my birthday, but he says ...

Every day, I walk by dozens of beautiful houses. I am an admirer of grand old houses. I live downtown, just blocks away from some of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, where lumber barons and early ...

He’s happy to celebrate my birthday, but he says he should get to do what he wants to do on his birthday. And what he wants ...

This is a complaint from both the far left & right for anybody able to watch without tacitly revealing their weird hangups . ...

When I was 8 years old, I played a game while on vacation. I was visiting the ocean for the first time. The sand was dry, and ...

Under the silver sky, everything was at a standstill. Only a managed, optimized, and frictionless 'happiness' existed there. What exactly was that ending? And—why did the AI 'Red' repeat at the end ...

It is always so hard to leave. Packing up from San Miguel de Allende is not terribly difficult because we leave the art on the walls and the dishes in the cupboard, and this year, a brand-new, ...