Last article we met Nat, who had recently retired after 20-years in the hospitality industry. He reportedly was released from his position as manager of a high-end hotel. He achieved goals set by the hotel. Earlier years found him attending school to improve his professional position. ...

Never forgotten but never seen in decades, the old album now rested across my arms as I carried it down the stairs. Minor snuggled up at my feet as I opened the book. I slipped to the floor beside him. I doubt if pictures of dogs would register with those dimming eyes but figured he might ...

I never thought much about being a June bride, but today is the day. It is June 1 and I am marrying my best friend. For a long time now Don and I have said we were just friends, but friendship turned to love. I cannot explain how it happened; it just did. We opted for a very quiet ceremony ...

“What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander,” is a phrase used by some people from my generation and generations that preceded mine as well. My interpretation, most playing fields should be the same. Things should be constant for everyone, unless extremely extraordinary ...

It’s Sunday, Memorial Day weekend. I’m walking the fields of the dead today, laying down flowers, calling up memories. It’s heavy business, requiring a stout heart. Some of us show up to honor our relatives today, not just those who served and died in service but all those lost. ...

The quote is attributed to President Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan kept it on his desk: "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." It is even more amazing what has been accomplished with the American economy, but Democratic presidential candidates, the ...

When I got married way back when, my mother planned the whole affair. Oh, I told her what kind of flowers I wanted and I picked out the blue bridesmaids dresses from a catalog, but other than that, the event squarely fell in her corner. That wasn’t unusual. Back in the old days (in my ...

The New York Assembly and Senate held a joint hearing on May 28 to hear testimony regarding the New York Health Act (NYHA), with a good variety of views represented, but the underlying premise was that something is broken with New York’s healthcare system, and that politicians need to do ...

“With great power, there must also come great responsibility.” —Stan Lee, Amazing Fantasy #15, 1962 The truth is dead, and Facebook killed it. That’s not nearly as much of an exaggeration as you might wish. Consider that the social media colossus was the platform of choice for a ...

Donald Trump and Bill de Blasio agree: Joe Biden should be ashamed of his support for the 1994 crime bill. The bipartisan legislation that was long a point of pride for Bill Clinton, who signed it into law, is now in such malodor that CNN the other day identified it in a chyron as the ...

I don’t mind if something that I write offends some readers — if I know that it will be offensive, and the subject matter and the viewpoint require such bluntness. But when I don’t know beforehand that what I write will offend a person, that’s on me. I ought to know the language and our ...

Hey, guys. Another week has gone by. Lately, I feel as if time is going by too quickly. I wake up and it seems like within minutes, it’s time to go to bed. Anyway, lets get on topic. This week I want to talk to you about something I know you have heard about a million times. Why have you ...

This has become too rare, I suddenly realized — this unscheduled gift of a moment. I was sitting on the small sofa in our front room, watching our 3-year-old granddaughter Carolyn as she arranged a family of toy mice on top of the trunk that doubles as a coffee table. She was softly ...

The favorite leftist tool for the attack on our nation’s founding is that slavery was sanctioned. They argue that the founders disregarded the promises of our Declaration of Independence “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, ...

It’s a better than even bet that in Massachusetts today there is more than one ambitious young Democratic candidate running for local office who is deliberately pronouncing the word “again” so that it rhymes with “a pain.” Why, you logically ask? Because that’s how the martyred John ...

You’d think from all the bombast and military shows at the border that Donald Trump is truly dedicated to ending illegal immigration. His apparent choice of Ken Cuccinelli as immigration “czar” would seem to cement the impression. The immigration hardliner espouses policies that are both ...

Judd Hamilton, a local man who has faced drug and alcohol addiction, recently shared about his time at the farm, a rehabilitation facility that connected him closer with God and set him out on a path toward recovery, despite the hills and valleys that would also appear. However, he also ...

We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy. Only in modern-day America, under the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, is the basic proposition that federally subsidized public housing should benefit American citizens and legal residents slammed as ...

WASHINGTON — Two separate functions of American journalism have emerged in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. One is to showcase the huge field of Democratic candidates for the highest office. The other is to investigate the apparent wrongdoing of the man who currently occupies ...

A photograph of a mallard male has sat on my desk waiting for my thoughts and observations . . . apparently for a few years. The iridescence on his head is obvious in the picture, what I felt made him so spectacularly special. I have tried many times since to get more pictures but the birds ...