Entries by James J. Gross

It’s Splitsville for Celebrity Couple

Marriage is on the rocks for Marge and Homer Simpson. The celebrity cartoon couple will legally separate in the upcoming season when Homer leaves Marge and the kids for his pharmacist. No word on whom Homer and Marge will hire for lawyers, but we’ve got room for just one more good case.

Md Legislature Adds Mutual Consent to Grounds for Divorce

The Maryland General Assembly has added “Mutual Consent” as new grounds for absolute divorce in Maryland, eliminating the waiting period, if (1) the parties do not have any minor children in common; (2) the parties execute and submit to the court a written settlement agreement signed by both parties that resolves all  issues relating to […]

Would You Let Your Children Walk Home Alone

Rafi Meitiv, age 10, and his sister Dvora, age 6, were walking along Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring when a passerby spotted them and called the police. A police officer asked the children what they were doing, to which Rafi replied, walking home from the park. The officer then went to the Meitivs’ house to […]

A Lesson from The Walking Dead

My son and I watched The Walking Dead together last weekend.  We both looked at each other after it was over because we were still trying to figure out the ending.  We rewound and rewatched it several times.  Then we discussed it and  put the clues together.  Aha!  So that’s what it meant. I told […]

Those Winter Sundays

by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, […]