Caring for loved ones with dementia is hard enough. Families shouldn’t have to bear a financial crisis on top of that. Not too many romantic comedies have a major character who goes bankrupt paying the health care costs of a loved one with dementia. Although millions of American families can relate to this financial strain, […]

It seems like yesterday that my son and daughter-in-law announced they were going to have a baby and today I am declaring to the world what a wonderful miracle has happened. The joy of this news was beyond words and the anticipation grew every week until our grandson has now finally entered the world. I […]

Ocean pollution is increasing rapidly, and more animals are dying due to this contamination. Over the past year, 10 percent of plastic ended up in the ocean. According to National Geographic, over 100 million marine animal species, such as dolphins, turtles, whales, and seal are dying due to ocean pollution. Many of these deaths are […]

Recently, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, fishermen have been reeling in butterfish, a species normally not found in the area. Butterfish are normally found in North and South Carolina, but they are being forced up north because of global warming. More fish are starting to show up in places that they normally wouldn’t be found. According […]

It was Oct. 19, 1984, 34 years ago last week. A gentle, courageous, and genuinely holy priest, Jerzy Popieluszko, age 37, found himself in a ghastly spot that, though it must have horrified him, surely did not surprise him. An unholy trinity of three thugs from communist Poland’s secret police had seized and pummeled him. […]

Mrs. Doc watched the dancers swirl around the cleared hardwood floor of the Legion hall, and smiled to see her husband, Doc, waltzing with Ardis Fisher. But Mrs. Doc was never one to sit out a waltz, so she looked around at the menu. Over in the corner, smiling and tapping his foot, was Pop […]

This weeks’ political quiz.  One the following is true and one is false. (a) “All politics is local.” (b) Money is the lifeblood of politics. The correct answer is (b).  It makes (a) false. The reverse was once true, with election campaigns conducted on a “retail” face-to-face basis on issues that were matters of state […]