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It’s Time To Start Getting Outdoors

Now that spring is right around the corner and the seed and flower catalogs have started to arrive in the mail, it’s time to think about finally getting outdoors. I am sure I am not the only one that loves spring, the season of rebirth. When I walk outside in spring, I know my favorite ...

Struggling To Keep Up

I looked around my house today in an utter panic. “Where did all this come from?” I thought, looking at toys, blankets and fruit snacks that were scattered all across the living room floor. (There may have been a few Doritos in the mix as well.) It seemed to all dawn on me at once: ...

The Second Mountain Of Alzheimer’s

It’s like a long, inspiring novel, the story of my best friend Michele who developed early onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 47. Her children were in high school at the time, two girls who were poised to go to college, have families and jobs one day, and then starter homes on little ...

The Tale Of A Two-Fingered Typist

From September 1968 through June 1971, I was a student at Jamestown High School. Back then, JHS was a grade 10-12 school, as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, were junior high schools of grades 7, 8 and 9, and our elementary schools were grades K-6. (I went to St. James Parochial School for ...

Bloomberg The Nanny

Good for Mike Bloomberg. During his first debate, he slammed Bernie Sanders by saying: “We’re not going to throw out capitalism. We tried that. Other countries tried that. It was called communism, and it just didn’t work!” Exactly right. It’s safe to say Bloomberg is not a ...

The Reason They Support Trump Isn’t About Him

Editor’s note: Adriana Cohen is off this week. The following column is by Salena Zito. WESTBY, Wisconsin — Spend any time with people who supported presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 and you quickly find out that the reasons they voted for Trump had very little to do with ...