What’s your story? The one you’ve been learning all your life, that tells where you’ve been, where you’re going, what you’ve learned along the way, who you’ve loved, who you are and hope to be someday?

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One of them wants to be everyone’s friend; the other is emerging as no one’s.

The birthday card made me laugh. A man and a woman of a certain age (old) are talking. The woman asks, “Wearing that new hot hearing aid?”

These days, the news is dominated by reporting on the Russian threat to Ukraine, by increasing fatigue with COVID restrictions across the United States and by the continuing rise of inflation. All of those are indeed newsworthy, but another newsworthy subject — the mess on the U.S.-Mexico bo…

It’s no secret we live in an era of relativism. What’s right for you may not be right for me. You do you. Whether things are black and white or fifty gradients of gray, I can definitively say that you can justify your opinion with a quick Google query. Certainly, everyone can’t be right, can they?

Two developments in the past few days are good news for Southern Oregon, which is wrestling with out-of-control illegal cannabis cultivation and facing the prospect of another hot, dry summer and the wildfires likely to come with it. More needs to be done on both fronts, but we’ll take the p…

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Fifty years ago this week, he cried. Or maybe it was just the snow melting across his face. What happened that day on Amherst Street doesn’t matter now. It mattered then.

My husband and I both celebrate our birthdays this month. One of us is getting older. Never mind who.

One of the most contentious claims Donald Trump ever made was his insistence that he had been the target of spying. He made the charge in several different ways. For example, in March 2017, Trump, just two months in office, tweeted: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ …

Jerry Seinfeld has an old comedy bit about how people fear public speaking more than they fear dying. “So that means if you’re at a funeral you’d rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy!” Seinfeld quips at the end of the joke. While this may still be the case, I’d like to discuss diff…

This much is certain: America’s political parties are in transition. What is uncertain is what they are evolving into, and whether the changes now underway are provisional or permanent.

Have you ever wanted to be somebody? I mean, other than the somebody that you are?

There is a wrenching debate going on inside the Republican Party over the simplest of questions: Should the party look backward or forward? Just because a question is simple does not mean the answer is easy, and indeed, as the 2022 and 2024 elections approach, the backward-or-forward questio…

At some point, every person thinks about making his mark — leaving his legacy in this world. Because I tend to think literally, I have always thought it would be cool to have a geographical feature named after me. I’m not asking for an ocean or anything, but I wouldn’t be opposed to a street…

This is our winter of discontent. Again.

Someday I’d like to make a list of all the things I’ve found while looking for something else.

Most of us see President Joe Biden’s falling job approval rating as a measure of his declining popularity. But for every candidate, Democrat or Republican, running for the House or Senate this year, Biden’s numbers mean political life or death. That is because the president’s job approval ra…

There’s a 1995 episode of “Seinfeld” where Jerry, George and Kramer play basketball at the local health club with a guy named Jimmy. Not only does Jimmy sell special training shoes that supposedly increase your vertical leap, but he always refers to himself in the third person.

This may be the week baseball died.