Today wasn't a good day. (via Juliette Kayyem at The Atlantic ) The attacks by Hamas against Israel beginning early this morning, some o...

The websites are reminding me of a tragic event from 25 years ago, back in 1997: The car accident that took the life of Princess Diana . I c...

For all the craziness this weekend, nothing has been more tragic than the collapse of a condominium in South Florida . Via Laurel Wamsley at...

This is a story that has hit pretty close to home, not just in my county but in my library cooperative where I work. Per WFLA, a sad tale ab...

Some days you just look at the blue sky and it reminds you of how clear and blue that Tuesday morning was so long ago. There will be servic...

I wrote this five years ago , about what happened in Gainesville at University of Florida: We shouldn't forget the lives taken that didn...

A gunman - apparently a long-time employee of the city - attacked the municipal center in Virginia Beach VA this afternoon . Eleven dead so ...

This is not good : At least 207 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in a series of bomb blasts that hit luxury hotels and church...

June is traditionally the beginning every year of the hurricane season on the Atlantic coast. And yet, we're still trying to recover f...

There's been another shooting. A gunman attacked an Orlando nightclub - about a 90-minute drive away - between 2 to 5 am this Saturda...

This week, President Obama is trying to do what he can about reducing the horrifying number of gun deaths we have in this nation. But it wo...

September 11 again. Last year, I was worried about how the world had remained a bloody , violent place since 2001 as the Syrian Civil War...

Today was a bad day all around - even without considering the flooding disaster that is Colorado - when we found our nation handling yet ano...

No, NOT THE CAT . The election of James Garfield as our twentieth President came during the height of the Spoils system within our gover...

That other bad tragic event from last week - the massive explosion of a fertilizer factory in West, TX - has this not-so-shocking revelation...

UPDATE : The second bomber reportedly captured alive .  This is important.   Alive means we get answers . UPDATE TO THE UPDATE (9:35 pm ...

Tragedy on the streets of Boston today , echoing across the nation and the globe. Why this happens, we've already figured out: there...

To the families and friends who lost people last night in Aurora, Colorado, my prayers and sympathies are with you.  These are weak words, t...

I was at the main library in downtown Ft. Lauderdale meeting with other librarians in the tech lab (computers) departments. The library was ...