One of our dogs crossed the rainbow bridge this week. Sophie, our little Chiweenie, has been slowly failing for a while, so it wasn’t unexpected. That doesn’t mean that it was easy. By accident or design, I have become Mother Reaper; the person in our family who oversees our dogs’ final ...

It’s the end of October. Last week, the weather was unseasonably warm. Now most of the leaves are off the trees. It’s time for ... Halloween this coming Thursday. All Saints’ Day is Friday, Nov. 1. All Souls’ Day is Saturday, Nov. 2. It’s time for spookiness. It’s time for ...

Some drivers have never been in a collision — some have been in many. In either case, the odds are that you will be in three to four crashes within your lifetime. There are more than 300,000 traffic crashes in New York state each year. Nationwide there are approximately six million ...

When I first read this story, I thought to myself, (whatever that means), that my pal Ron Keough, with a big part in the celebration, was scary enough (ha ha) without wearing a Hallowe’en costume. So, here it is folks: “Seventh and eighth grade members of Our Lady’s Sodality, St. ...

It seems like only last year that I was teaching you a few safety tricks so that Halloween could be a treat for you and your children. Well, here we are a year later, and many of you are asking me for a few more hints so that Halloween is not a safety nightmare for anyone. - If you are a ...

Last week, when Bunk Griffin snugged into his stool in The Great Downhill Grill in the Sky, he took with him a vast number of stories never recorded or even heard. Luckily for us, and me in particular, he left another bunch of them behind. Some necessary background: Bunk was seven years ...