For the first time in his 19 years, James Wright will be 3,000 miles away from his family on Christmas Day. ...more

December 25, 2009

Is it now okay to publish photos of the draped coffins of our dead sons and daughters killed defending freedom around the world? Yes. Parents must give consent before the photos are allowed, however those caskets represent much more than the dead sons and daughters of those parents giving their consent. ...more

April 10, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - When Joyce Simard, a geriatric consultant and Alzheimer's specialist, was featured on a radio show a few years ago, the host confided that his father had the disease and that his children didn't want to visit their grandfather. ...more

March 22, 2009

Elvina Taylor's father had a classmate in a one-room school house who became a business and manufacturing icon - Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company. ...more

March 9, 2009

"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it," proclaimed the poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. ...more

February 14, 2008

Second-graders receive flag from Iraq, flown in their honor ...more

January 23, 2008

The second-graders in Josephine Maher's class at Pine Grove Elementary School know their "Soldier Gary" is a father. ...more

January 23, 2008

Back when genealogy was of interest only to blue bloods looking to prove relationships to royalty or war heroes, researchers didn't closely embrace the black sheep in the family. ...more

December 16, 2007

I'm always leery when a potential employer seems too eager to hire me, kind of like how Groucho Marx felt about not wanting to belong to a club where they'd accept him as a member. But when the woman who interviewed me told me this job would be "just having fun" and didn't raise her eyebrows at my colorful resume, I accepted her offer. ...more

December 16, 2007

It took the better part of a year for Chante Douglass to understand the Children's Village was different. ...more

November 21, 2007