Since this month is national Child Abuse Prevention Month, I thought it wouldn’t be harmful for me to talk about this most serious topic. More than one million infants and children are abused or maltreated every year in this country physically, sexually, or emotionally. The sad thing is ...

People accuse me of always being late, but that’s not true. Yeah, sure, I’m late a lot of the time — even most of the time. But there’s one thing I’m never late for, and that’s doctors’ appointments. This, of course, is a supreme irony. For, like every other shmendrick in the ...

“I don’t like spiders and snakes.” — Jim Stafford Most of us humans don’t like to be compared to a snake. “You’re a snake!” “Oh, she is such a snake!” “You snake in the grass!” No doubt, unless you’re a herpetologist, (Scrabble, anyone?) we regard snakes as ...

Over recent years many of us have learned that New York’s North Country had long been a more ethnically diverse area than has been appreciated. Older histories that categorically denied any permanent indigenous presence have been refuted. Furthermore, plenty of evidence confirms more African ...