Time-outs are not only good for children. We adults need to use time-outs for ourselves from time to time. I recently put myself in a time-out when I had a bad case of being out of sorts. The complications of my disequilibrium, I was to learn, were not so simply…

Walking with a cane the over-70 gray-haired lady named June wore a “Doug Jones for Senate button” to a meeting I frequent. I struck up a political conversation with her one evening. With an eloquence betraying her pre-retirement profession for many years at a Birmingham college-prep high school, she opined, “No matter who wins the Senate seat, we have much work to do here to strengthen a community that promotes humane values in the State of Alabama.”