Author: lisaalberico

When I was a kid, my mom made many of our clothes. Partly out of necessity but also because she loved to sew. Sometime around third grade, I noticed that my classmates wore only store bought clothes, like real Levi blue jeans.  The only “jeans” I had were homemade, made of thin denim plastered with…

There are a lot of scary warnings about artificial intelligence flowing through our media streams. They say humans may be wiped out by AI in ten, no – five, well, maybe just two years. The world is responding with panic reminiscent of “The War of the Worlds” broadcast of 1938, which vividly described a fictional…

You can donate all sorts of dying vehicles to NPR. From decrepit cars to planes to farm tractors, they’ll take it all. But bicycles are an exception, which explains why their spindly corpses are a common sight in the U.S. Even in Amsterdam, a city that moves mostly on two wheels, boats with little claws…

Bernie Moreno is Ohio’s “senior” senator in Washington, despite having served a little over 1.5 years. He took JD Vance’s place, and this senior status is really going to his head. One might think at this early stage of his term, he would allow veteran senators in the Capitol to take the lead. But no,…

Although I’m hardly a sports fan, I talked to a patient today who made me empathize with elderly sports fans. This man and I discovered that we hail from the same region of Eastern Ohio/Western PA. The Steelers and Pirates were our teams. It was music to his ears when I named my favorite Steeler…