In this germ-laden world, we are constantly being attacked by viruses of every ilk. I believe I have detected a new virus infecting some of your readers and I call this affliction "myopia magnificationus." ...more

November 3, 2009

Before political correctness we had colorful names for people in our fairly ethnically diverse school and neighborhood, most of which I can't even mention in this column. ...more

October 24, 2009

I am an 85-year-young woman who is aware the majority of letters you receive are negative toward someone or something. ...more

August 13, 2009

Harris Armstrong, a 12-year-old golfing prodigy from Tampa, died Monday after a 14-month fight against cancer. ...more

December 4, 2008

Before Ultimate Fighting Championship legend Randy Couture entered the octagon to do battle in the world of MMA, his passion was wrestling. ...more

February 4, 2008

The first Thanksgiving, in the autumn of 1621 was a recognition by the Pilgrim Fathers of the Providence that had seen them through a hard winter, into a tense spring and then into a harvest season in which fortune smiles. The story of that first year is told, in part, by the old Pilgrims themselves. William Bradford their governor, tells about the "new life" in his "History of Massachusetts:" The spring now approaching, it pleased God the mortalitie began to cease amongst them. And ye sick and lame recovered apace, which put, as it were, a new life into them, though they had borne their sad affliction with as much patience and contentedness as I think any people could do. ... But it was ye Lord which upheld them and had beforehand prepared them, many having long borne ye yoake — yea, from their youth... ...more

November 22, 2007

Veterans Day probably means more to Steve Lecarpentier than it does to most people. ...more

November 11, 2007

The rate of health-threatening high blood pressure has started rising among America's children for the first time in decades, researchers reported this week, a trend long feared by experts worried about the consequences of the obesity epidemic. ...more

September 13, 2007