I have a confession to make. I don’t like heights. I never have. Whether I’m standing on a rooftop, looking down from a tall building, or peering over a balcony, something inside me just says no. It’s not rational, I know that, but fear rarely is. So, when my 11-year-old son looked at me with those ...

It’s the middle of May, and I am sweating. Despite the occasional lovely breeze and the persnickety moods of recent weather, humidity has arrived in force, and for this outdoors girl, I’m already sweating bullets. Forgive my use of such a vulgar term (sweat), but this gumbo of humidity and heat is c...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following editorial was originally published November 6, 2024.) Elon Musk is very interesting and inspiring to me. He strikes me as being so intelligent it’s as though he must slow down his brain enough to articulate words. He is clearly shy, his speech at times halting, and he o...

After having a small garden at my house for over forty years, I have come to the conclusion that I would be in trouble if I had to feed everyone from ...

President Trump traveled to China last week to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and he didn’t go alone. Accompanying him were some of the most i...

Dear Rusty: My girlfriend is 65 and she just enrolled in Medicare. She is still working full time as a nurse, but they are still deducting Medicare ta...