When I was a schoolboy back in the olden days in Richfield, a couple of friends and I would occasionally make “newspapers.” We would sometimes do this when we were supposed to be listening to the teacher lecture. Or, sometimes we were supposed to be following along in our literature books ...

I often get a new book or two or three for Christmas each year. Books are great gifts, “in my book.” Socks are also a great gift, in my “you can’t have too many socks” philosophy of life. This past Christmas, I received two small books of poetry. I don’t remember receiving ...

I’ve been observing the presidential political process. I’m sure many of you have too. It’s in our face, like it or not. Though very unofficial, and premature, it looks like we may again have Joe and Donald as candidates for the Democratic and Republican parties. I don’t really want to ...

It’s occurred to me recently that people I know or hear of, often have seemingly good ideas. It’s also occurred to me that many of these “good ideas” are seemingly not for me. Some of them are so “seemingly not for me” that I think I’d still be opposed even if threatened with a ...

I’ve been asking myself some hard questions lately — again. These questions are relentless. Some of them are related to my age. Many revolve around the general question: “If not now – when?” A question in this category that I ask myself every so often is: “When am I going to ...

Hooray! The Iowa caucuses are done. When it comes to politics, we can now hear about the New Hampshire primary election ad nauseum until we’re sick to death of that. But we need to pay attention. The presidential general election is just around the corner. It’s only about 10 months away! ...