Mark’s Remarks

I’m sure many of you have heard about Henrico County Public Schools in Virginia and how they have decided to celebrate groups of students that have maybe been overlooked. At…

Although it seems to be news that came out in 2019, I guess I missed it.  Did you hear? Casimir Pulaski could have been a woman. Or a man. Or…

I was having a good conversation with one of my old school buddies a few weeks back, and we were catching up on some guys we used to hang out…

If you’ve read many of my columns, you might know that it’s hard for me to let go of some things from the past.   I tend to be a…

Growing older and the information that comes with it is not always something I relish.  Along the same lines, I’m in a position where I’ve gotten to know families, served…

I was walking into a business on a crisp, cool morning not long ago. As I approached the building, I walked through a cloud of fresh cigarette smoke – most…

We were in a craft store with my daughter the other day, and a tiny little girl had run away from her mother. The mother was reprimanding the little one,…

kesters and general practitioners of hijinks and frivolity. Much of my life has been spent around people who have an easier time being silly than being serious. And I’m not…

For Christmas 1979, one of my gifts was a transistor radio. I’d never had a radio before, so I wasn’t sure about it. I remember thinking that surely this was…