Willis Reed died last week. He was 80 years old. His death hit me hard.

Ann Henrich taught me how to wash dishes. She taught me how to make a bed, how to bartend, and most of all how to work really really hard at something that matters. 

If Vermont Congresswoman Becca Balint ever becomes president of the United States, historians will say it began with the phrase “Scrappy Little Dyke!’’

It is by now a truism that social media is a powerful tool - for better or worse.