Earth Day is on Tuesday. Arbor Day is Friday. Both holidays celebrate nature and the environment. Earth Day is a time to promote environmental awareness. Arbor Day is a celebration of trees. Earth Day began in 1970 with the ecology movement. It raises awareness of our environment, ...

For decades, I have written almost 1,000 articles on vehicle and traffic laws and traffic safety, and I frequently discuss traffic safety issues with many people, including those in law enforcement. I also realize the importance of taking a periodic course to review new and existing traffic ...

Parents have been anything but “faint” of heart to ask me about what to do if their child or teenager should experience a fainting episode. Well, let me pass out some information on this topic. Fainting represents a temporary loss of consciousness. This is a result of blood not ...

Just returned from a long weekend trip and nothing to write about to fill this revered space but You Know What? Enterprise stories from the archives of the Adirondack Room of the Saranac Lake Free Library just seem to fall into my hands as I paw through my meticulous files. Our village is ...

It should come as no surprise when I tell you that over the past half-century I’ve read scads, oodles, and even buttloads on the fine art of writing. From how-tos to Who’s Who’s, from interviews to the latest news, from teaching ‘bout it to preaching ‘bout it, I may not have heard it ...

When I saw myself for the first time, I was wearing a green light-up fedora for “crazy hat day” at my school. I’d seen other girls tie their hair up in a way to make themselves look like a guy, so I did the same, and when I looked in the mirror that morning, I felt this rush of pure ...