From my perch overlooking North Carolina’s Eno River, the birds’ singing reminds me that I’ve barely sung a note myself in months. During the pandemic, some researchers ...
I am at an age when I remember very clearly the stories my parents told of World War II and the folks we now call the Greatest Generation. These ancestors of ours unders...
For obvious reasons, 2020 will not go down as a good year. At the same time, it has brought more scientific progress than any year in recent memory — and these advances ...
No one will ever accuse President Donald Trump of being overly careful in his exercise of his pardon power.
So, it makes sense that advocates of Edward Snowden, the man ...
If dysfunction were measured in fire alarms, Pennsylvania’s Legislature would rightly be a five-alarm fire
Pennsylvania’s Legislature, among the largest and highest paid...
I’m with you. I do not like to wear a mask. I miss my active social life. I miss seeing my extended family. I miss going to Steelers and Penguins’ games. I miss shaking ...
So we all have a new lifeline on the way, compliments of the federal government.
The Republicans would like praise and appreciation sent their way.
The Democrats are e...
Stay inside and wear a mask.
In September 2019, I was given devastating news.
I was diagnosed with stage 4, a rare pancreatic cancer. I ate correctly, went to the gym a...
In 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial on Sept. 21, 1897. Th...
'Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart'
In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first...
