Children start to learn in utero, months before birth. They hear their mother sing or talk, and their brain neurons connect to identify separate sounds, or phonemes, like “ma.” During their first year they learn that connected phonemes have meaning, like “mama” means mother, and then ...

Winter Carnival is good group therapy. I thought about this last week as I drove out to Bloomingdale to work on our parade float. I thought about how Carnival brings people together across the many things that divide us. You might go down to Lake Flower to cut and stack ice with friends and ...

With the new year underway, I wanted to provide a general update to our community concerning the work we have been doing to bolster Adirondack Health’s sustainability and expand access to care. As previously communicated, Adirondack Health posted an operating loss in fiscal year 2022 of ...

There has always been a segment of the political class that has maintained power by keeping people frightened and angry enough to vote accordingly when they are promised protection. The United States has plenty of real enemies, but when they are no longer sufficiently scary, politicians invent ...

I don’t know about everyone else, but I have felt my anxiety rising this week. Whether you are happy or not about the coming change of government and administration of our country, we could all agree that there is still a certain experience of division that lies ahead. Division of beliefs ...

“Born of cold and winter air And mountain rain combining This icy force both foul and fair Has a frozen heart worth mining So cut through the heart, cold and clear Strike for love and strike for fear See the beauty, sharp and sheer Split the ice apart And break the ...