In July 2025, I had the privilege of speaking to the Police Academy in Plattsburgh, where new police officers receive a 6-month training course before they return to their agency and begin their career of enforcement. At the end of my presentation, I gave the students a number of questions on ...
I like to think I don’t have a favorite child. I also know my favorite child was the one causing the least amount of stress. With only two children, I never thought about it as picking a favorite, but more as surviving the ups and downs of parenting. I didn’t know if my children felt I had ...
Maybe I love the Winter Carnival so much because, without ever having to do any work to stage this historic event, I have participated in it in so many ways. The parade was always exciting for me; first marching as a Boy Scout, then with the Saranac Lake High School Band under Charles ...
One of the most common questions I get from younger patients is, “What’s that stuff that forms inside my nose and is ripe for the picking?” Well, let me put everyone in the know — or should I say nose — and tell you what it is and is snot. It turns out that every day your nose ...
Its Flu Season, and time for Chicken Soup. At my house in winter, chicken soup was known as Jewish Penicillin and was most often served when someone was sick. For variety, it was made with egg noodles or matzo balls. A steaming bowl of chicken soup always makes you feel better! My Italian ...
Last week’s column was a basic introduction to the fine art of thrift shopping. If there were a college major called Don’t Be A Moron Shopper, that column would’ve been a course labeled, Thrift Shops 101. Continuing in the same vein, this column is Thrift Shops 303, since it goes into my ...