The ground is still covered in a white blanket. We have snow in the forecast. But days are lengthening, snow will melt and flowers will blossom. Spring is on its way. Shrove Tuesday — also known as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras — is March 4, followed by Ash Wednesday on March 5. The ...

We all know well the events and results of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. It is fun for me recalling the little things that happened along the way and behind the scenes. Traveling with the Olympic Bid team as a reporter, we were all on the train in Zurich, Switzerland ...

Parents have been heating up with their questions about climate change and how it might be affecting the health of their children. Let me see if I can air out some information on this important topic. As glaciers are shrinking, sea levels are rising and fossil fuels are being burned, the ...

Last week’s column was about one of my hobbies, etymology — the tracing of word and phrase origins. One of the words I mentioned was “Hoosegow,” a word for “jail,” which I heard in the cowboy movies of my childhood. But it wasn’t used only in cowboy movies; apparently, it was ...

Last week’s column was about one of my hobbies, etymology — the tracing of word and phrase origins. One of the words I mentioned was “Hoosegow,” a word for “jail,” which I heard in the cowboy movies of my childhood. But it wasn’t used only in cowboy movies; apparently, it was ...

Trigger Warning: cheap jewelry, mean girls, self-sabotage. I am a thief. My photo is just there to the right, so you should probably make a citizen’s arrest. To this day, I still owe the Gift Corner 21 cents for a ring I bought, to join a mean girl club I didn’t like, all in the name of ...