With the holiday season here, parents have been cooking up lots of questions about food safety, so let me see if I can provide a few safe ingredients on this topic. Nothing can end a joyous holiday visit from friends and family than if your guests or your own family members get sick from the ...

One of the beauties of being retired is how my time is just that — MY time. Aside from the occasional appointment with this or that sawbones and having bills to pay, there’s almost nothing I have to do and nowhere I have to be. As a result, I am a-chronometric. Or to put it in plain ...

Excuses, excuses - It’s December 18 and I am woefully unprepared for the holidays, which is a bold departure from the normal checklists, menus and gifts blocking my closet. The holidays are a time to drink deep from the well of consumerism, to wake and worry early, to plan and prep late ...

Clinton County’s Senior Citizens Council has been conducting its “Senior Scholars” seminar program for thirteen years. The seminars meet in-person for five consecutive weeks. I was coordinator of one of this autumn’s seminars, focused on “What They’re Reading in High School ...

Recently, I heard from my college friend Jim Glover, a regular reader of my column and who drops me an email every once in a while. He let me know that he was blogging and asked for some tips to help spread the word. I told him I didn’t know how much help I could be. It’s not like I have ...