Last year people were looking forward to a better than the year before scenario. When the vaccine was fast-tracked, we looked forward to unmasking and resuming life in a normal fashion. That was not to be. Along came another variant and then another. We are in this for the long-haul ...

The gathering of the clan for this Christmas was overdue – it had been three years since our small family celebrated together. On Christmas Eve, my son and grand-dog, Walter, arrived from Annapolis. My daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren drove all Christmas Day from Massachusetts. ...

This week I was planning to write about a Christmas song that I love. It spells out C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S. I digress because I found something in a book that I was reading that struck home with me. Someone in the story was explaining the true meaning of Christmas. It was described as a precursor ...

That seems like an unusual combination, I know. I was a parent filling my own children’s Christmas stockings, when I realized how important my early stockings had been for my future. Who could have thought that a limp knee sock was part of my mother’s master plan … for my life’s ...

Pennsylvania’s public education system is broken, according to a lawyer in the historic education-funding lawsuit currently underway in the state’s Commonwealth Court. Greater Johnstown School District is one of six districts suing Pennsylvania claiming the state is not meeting its ...

When we first married, we lived in a trailer. Before we were out of there, we had two children. We always had a Christmas tree, but it was a small one – one that could be put on a box and anchored with a rope to be sure it did not tip over. We moved to Hickory Heights when our son was four ...