This week, my youngest daughter graduated from fifth grade. Which means I’ve graduated too — from uniform swaps and pickup-line convos, from pizza Fridays and last-minute permission slips, from our beautiful, chaotic, love-filled St. Bernard’s School era. In 2014, my oldest daughter ...

Everybody’s familiar with that old formula for success in the stock market. The market has always had ups and downs and always will, but lately it’s been doing a dance even a yo-yo would envy. Buy low, sell high. It’s important, though, to be able to afford this strategy. If a Joe ...

Historian Douglas Brinkley (Rice University) recalled a conversation he had with Donald Trump shortly after his 2016 presidential victory. Trump mused about having his name “carved” on Mt. Rushmore next to four of the nation’s most illustrious presidents: George Washington, Thomas ...

That is the title of a recent book by Chef Paul Sorgule. It is serious, intelligent and shrewd. Do yourself a favor and run — don’t walk — to the Book Nook and get yourself a copy. This is no tourist trip; the story is about a cook on the lam after “being in the wrong place at the ...

We lost two significant arts entities recently: BluSeed Studios and ADK ArtRise. BluSeed was a not-for-profit that provided opportunities for artists (including dancers, musicians, writers and other performers) to exhibit, teach and create. There were free or low-cost educational programs ...

It is difficult for me to understand why so many Americans seem to like seeing our country divided into factions on social terms (friends/enemies), by racial background (white, black, brown, blended etc.), by gender and sexuality (male/female, straight, LGBTQ-plus, etc.), socioeconomic status ...