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For the past year or so, Janet and I have dedicated ourselves to working on jigsaw puzzles. To start with, they are great entertainment and doctors have made it clear that focusing on how the pieces all fit together stimulates…

Tomorrow is the inauguration of President Donald Trump for the second of his non-consecutive terms in office. Every American knows that this event is the culmination of the one of the most divisive elections in the history of the United…

It was fifty-nine years ago today that the family buried my paternal grandfather. It had been a long week for Dad and, consequently, the rest of us. Grandpa, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, had wandered away from the nursing home where…

If you have kept your New Year’s resolutions beyond this past Friday, January 10th, then you have beaten the odds. Yes, we even have a day in the year dedicated to those people who have failed to keep their resolutions…