This Thursday, our nation will stop and celebrate Thanksgiving. It is a unique holiday that began in the United States and one that is often missed with everyone rushing to the Christmas holiday season. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists from England and the Native American Wampanoag people shared an a...

Growing up as a child in the 1970s, one of my most dreaded experiences was going to my grandparent’s home. My dad’s mother and father died while I was really young so my memories of them are rare, but my mother’s parents lived into their 80s, so that is the set I’m most familiar with.When you first ...

One of the challenges of my sixties has been sleeping throughout the night in a restful sleepan atrocity I could not imagine in my younger adulthood. My normal sleep routine is to snooze about 4-5 hours then wake up and cat nap from then until the official ‘getting up’ time. It makes for misery. I s...

At the time of this newspaper’s printing on Monday, nearly all political scientists and journalists predict that Zohran Mamdani, the socialist/ commun...

President Trump has now returned from a precedent-setting summit with an overarching accomplishment: every time President Trump and Chinese President,...

As a society, we seem to be besotted with our handy dandy cellphones. We just can’t live without them. While the benefits are many, there are a few po...