Let’s face it, we’re a nation of voyeurs. Celebrities are the bread and butter of TV and social media. Actors, singers, dancers, jocks — even flash-in-the-pan headline-grabbers — are the food and fuel, if not the lifeblood of This Great Land of Ours. We track their lives with a ...

While not a Luddite, I will admit my computer skills are deficient, if not almost defunct. But they’re also adequate for my uses. Good thing they are too, because in an emergency, it can be a lifesaver, literally. And that’s exactly what it was for me a couple weeks ago. The life ...

When it comes to mountains, what things that come to mind? With the Alps, it’s yodeling, edelweiss and Heidi. With the Rockies, it’s Pikes Peak and John Denver. With the Adirondacks, it’s logging, TB and black flies. But with the Poconos, it’s only one thing — their ...

As soon as I picked up the phone, he began, in his trademark high screech. “It’s a world gone mad, Dope! A world gone mad!” “He” was the only person it could be — Eric “The Hysteric” Lund. I’ve known him since college and he hasn’t changed one iota: Always in panic ...

Perfect mornings, like perfect everythings, are few and far between. But about three weeks ago, I had one. Or at least I had the START of one. It began as it always does, with reveille sounded by Kitzel the Kat. But that morning, maybe deciding she could wait a bit before her b’fast, she ...

It’s no secret that most people, whether they’ll admit it or not, think bigger is better. And continuing in that vein, they also think taller is better, as in “tall, dark and handsome.” Not the least ironically, you’ll almost never hear anyone extolling the virtues of “short, grey ...