As the wife of a U.S. senator, I work hard to keep separate my marriage and my career as a newspaper columnist.
Normally, I mention my husband, Sherrod Brown, only when the disclosure is necessary or I am writing a personal essay that has nothing to do with politics.
However, on this Wednesday morning, two hours after news first broke of the shooting at a baseball practice for congressional Republicans, I am incapable of writing about anything else.
Most of the time, I live and work in Cle
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