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The natural human instinct is to run away from danger. That panicky, heart-pounding urge to turn tail and flee is often good — it’s...

Memories are embedded in our minds, but people and places change.Someone once said, “Attempting to relive childhood memories is an exercise doomed to failure,...

A bullet pinged past the soldier’s ear as he crouched behind bushes near the frontlines. A soldier near him suddenly lurched forward, letting out...

If we are honest with ourselves, our psyches become stuck in a period within our lives that we have found to be most pleasing,...

Dear student,This school year seemed to go by more quickly than all of the others. The older you get, the more you’ll realize that...

Once when he was very little my brother asked my mother if the iron she was using to press my dad’s shirts was hot.“Why...

It was a little before midnight, and the credits for Raymond Chandler’s movie “Farewell, My Lovely” had just rolled as my wife, Brenda, and...

It was Josh who said we can usually ignore this stuff, but not when it happens at our front door.That’s where the Canada goose...

Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt delivered the commencement address at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the weekend and delivered what I thought to...

It almost does not seem possible that it has been 10 years since Pam Stricker walked into my office and told me The Times-Gazette...