My daughter, Alix, who lives in Massachusetts, played softball in last week’s column. This week, she traveled to Warren. The initial reason for Alix’s flight in from Boston was to attend the wedding of a friend she’s known since junior high school. Dear Richard was going to miss the ...

I am very aware that I am sharing my environment with nature. Everywhere I look nature abounds. This morning there were three deer just laying out in the lawn when I came downstairs. They did not seem to notice me at all. Then, as I sat on the couch two squirrels were chasing each other up and ...

Yup. That was the name of the sporting event I attended in Lexington, Mass., last week. It was a hoot. My daughter, now age 50, never played softball. Her tomboy mother (me) played four years of varsity softball in high school and dabbled in marching band. Alix seriously excelled in music ...

First of all, let me say that I support the rights of responsible individuals to own guns for whatever reasons, be it hunting, sport, and/or self-protection. I also realize that the vast majority of people who own guns understand the responsibilities that come along with gun ownership, taking ...

As a person who lived in Sweden for nine years before immigrating to America with his parents, my father, Christian, like other new arrivals in the U.S, had to shift language gears quite rapidly to acquire an education. Despite his early unfamiliarity with it, he did acquire a small repertoire ...

When I think of Memorial Day I think of my youngest grandson. Jared was born on Memorial Day in 2002. His grandfather knew he was coming but did not last to be able to see him. That was one of the hardest things I have ever done - welcome a new grandchild without my partner. I made ...