NATO: Can we live without it?
It sounds like a love story, and in many ways it has been. There have been plenty of ups and downs since the U.S....
The perfect pet or a pest?
My mother has found the perfect pet. She just doesn’t realize it yet.A clever little red squirrel has been trying to get my mother’s...
There are those bit players
For years, many thespians have made a very good living appearing in films as character actors, playing those bit parts so vital to completing...
Cutting the paid TV cord
This is gonna be a long one so I’m breaking it into multiple columns because there are lots of ways to “cut the cord”...
I have a dream… a bad one
A recent report on climate change on PBS said that the last seven years on the planet were the hottest seven years in recorded...
A magical concert by the wind
I was “up north,” walking through the woods with an escort of dragonflies on either side, as if I were a visiting dignitary in...
Put another log on the fire
Driving down a rural country road covered by a canopy of tree limbs last weekend, I wondered how many times I had traveled the...
Thanks for the opportunity
My retirement from Southern State Community College has prompted me to reflect on my 12 years serving as its president. Out of the many...
Assistive listening devices?
Last week I tried to give an overview and introduce you to terms used with headphones and earbuds. This week I’m going to discuss...
Grappling with a divided America
Abraham Lincoln’s famous prophecy to America was that “A house divided against itself, cannot stand.” It was not a prophecy made as president but...