Yesterday, beginning the turn into our driveway, I stopped. Our front yard birch tree, its leaves shimmering in the light breeze, captured my attention. I usually take its beauty for granted, but this time I needed to pause to appreciate its splendor. We planted the cluster birch with its four ...

Although it has been more than 20 years since I retired from my job of teaching school, I still feel nostalgic when it is time for school to begin. I guess the saying “once a teacher always a teacher” applies. I have used my skill of teaching off and on during those years, but nothing ...

My Dear Richard has wide feet. I sympathize as he searches for the right shoe in size 10 EEEE. Shoe stores have very little for him. He scored once, fourteen years ago in New York City, and once in Canada in 2015. Mostly, he searches the catalogues, but finding handsome tassel loafers in ...

These days, it’s easy to put a spin on something and pedal it as if it is the undisputed truth. Take legal skill games, for example. Fear-mongering arguments pushed by the Pennsylvania Lottery and casino industry take great efforts to ignore both the facts and the law. A recent Pennlive ...

By SEN. JUDY WARD The Pennsylvania Award for Student Success (PASS) program and Gov. Shapiro’s repeated public support for it continues to receive much-deserved media attention. The situation in our low-achieving schools is at a crisis level, and children are suffering every day because of ...

Last week I did a history of canning jars. This week I will concentrate on what went into the jars. There were several trying times. I really cannot remember which event came first, although if I looked back in my diaries I could find out. I have kept a diary for close to fifty years with ...