“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” That famous phrase from Charles Dickens sums up the double-edged sword hanging over the roughly 63 million Americans now getting monthly retirement payouts from Social Security. Their 2022 COLA (cost-of-living adjustment) rose by ...

I was reading a book review recently about the long history humans have had with dogs and puppies. According to the article, “Neanderthals didn’t live with puppies. But Homo sapiens have done so for thousands of years.” That reminded me of myself talking to our dog every morning on ...

Often overlooked in the account of creation is the way in which God ordered and distinguished. The creation brought into existence by divine power is ordered by and distinguished from the self-existent God. The visible, vast, yet finite, creation is ordered by and distinguished from the ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Here in the largest of the Quad Cities, nestled along the Mississippi River, is where a young woman from Iowa met a young man from New York. Their story isn’t all that different from many other couples’. She had moved to Davenport shortly after high-school ...

Along with the change of seasons, I also change the type of clothing that I wear. I spent one morning this week changing my wardrobe from the summer short sleeved things to the longer sleeves that are my winter wardrobe. I do not store them far away; I use some old suitcases as storage. I ...

The number of deer inside city limits is unsustainable. The amount of monetary damage the whitetail deer costs to New Yorkers, and nationwide, is astronomical. Let’s delve deeper. According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, in 2002 NYS farmers estimated their ...