I was discussing habits with a friend, the type of friend who always encourages me to do and be better. According to that person, there are only two ends: Bad or good habits. It was too extreme to fixate on two opposite ends of a spectrum because failure seems eminent and real change is ...

Last month, one of these weekly columns posed the question: “Should interstate exit numbers be changed?” I asked for responses with opinions to the question. Although I did not receive many responses, the ones that I did get were good ones. The majority favored mileage-based numbering, like ...

The pond is still frozen. There’s still more than a foot of snow behind our house. But the place I skied the day before yesterday is now completely bare. We had 2023’s first thunderstorm. It’s finally spring! We all love the increase in daylight — and so do the chickens! They lay more ...

That was the headline in the Enterprise on that long ago day but this column is about local sports and loaded with photos ... well, at least a couple of photos. So let’s get started with a bit of sports with the news about a “Big” Little League Tournament scheduled for Saranac ...

Parents of young infants have been keeping me up with lots of questions about when their baby would be able to sleep through the night. I don’t want to fall asleep on the job, so let me provide some information to help you relax a bit on this topic. - How to Define “Sleeping Through ...

According to Alfred Lord Tennyson, spring is when “... a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” Assuming that’s true, what about an old man’s fancy? I don’t know about the rest of ‘em, but what I think about is boot camp. On the 20th of April, 1969, I arrived ...