It’s been 18 years since we sent trail mix to Iraq. My son, Bart, was a Marine pilot. He flew the Cobra gunship, an attack helicopter that protected the Marines on the ground. A nasty machine. Having been gone for months, his squadron was deployed to Al Asad, Iraq during Christmas, 2005. ...

When I got to thinking about the Christmas Eve celebrations, I realized that I had varied experiences. When I was young, I remember one Christmas Eve at home. I prepared a little service complete with Christmas carols. My aunt and uncle came that evening to celebrate with us since they would be ...

The one place you won’t find a Subaru is in Dear Richard’s driveway, our everyday car park. He’s a domestic sorta guy. We got chatting about our old car favorites and I realized how much he enjoyed his “big boats” from the 60s and 70s. Back then you could buy 8 horsepower under the ...

Breathe in and savor the smell! That is what you do when you enter a bakery. Now I have to admit that scent does not permeate as much in the big box bakeries. I am not sure when they bake things, but it definitely is not during the normal store hours. I remember five bakeries in Dunkirk, ...

My mother considered herself a Christmas elf. She was a no-nonsense, practical woman who also happened to be 5 feet, 11 inches tall. Not exactly a pixie. But every December, as the month wore on, she got a bad case of Elf-ism while scattering her pixie dust. Wearing a Santa hat, she loved ...

As the second largest energy producer in the United States, Pennsylvania has long seen natural gas and energy production as key parts of the commonwealth’s economy. More than 250,000 Pennsylvanians go to work each day in energy jobs to ensure the region has the electricity to power our ...