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Some of the things I really enjoy about retirement are very simple. Take, for example, the weather. Winter brings those bitter cold days when the wind...

It’s no fun spending holidays alone. Old memories appear unbidden, and it’s bad enough without your wife as it is. Quiet times are dangerous, for then...

I was about to be invaded. My birthday was only a few days away — Feb. 22 — and both my daughters and their families were headed in my direction. Sinc...

Man, the first quarter of the year has rolled around again. Yes, the months of January, February and March can be cold, snowy and very boring if you d...

When Covid-19 hit, you could practically hear the screech of brakes as our country came to a rapid stop. As in any pandemic, the best way to slow the ...

Rhode Island’s topography leaves little doubt it’s one of the New England states. Largely flat and very rocky with low, heavily forested, rolling hill...

The COVID-19 virus has been two-fold in its effects on families. First, it has cooped many of us together in an unprecedented manner. School, work, en...

The lake stretched before us, long and narrow. A light breeze ruffled its surface and as I watched an eagle soared out from behind a pine covered isla...

My grandson and I were thrilled to find ourselves in Maine staying with Ozzie and Karen Morgan at their home in Washington, Maine. Don Morgan, nicknam...

A bright Rhode Island sun beamed down on the water, a thousand facets of light sparkling and reflecting off the tiny waves a rusting wind pushed playf...

The first day of Pennsylvania trout season still excites me. It’s not only been a yearly tradition from the very earliest days of my youth, but a symb...

When Cindy and Dale Smith, owners of Rock City Park, scaled back their annual Gem-Mineral-Fossil Show to a two-day event last year, the public respons...

BLESSINGS: In “Overflowing Baskets of Blessings” by Frances Wolfe Haight of Kane, she shares poems and prose about her faith and recounts the blessing...

During a recent visit to Rhode Island where I was visiting my daughter, grandson Nate immediately backed me into a corner and demanded to know when we...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — This is the kind of week it was for the Bills. At his media day press conference, first-year coach Sean McDermott answered questi...

RUN: Frances Wolfe Haight of Kane sent this funny story from her past. “Run, Run, Run” By Frances Wolfe Haight “Around 1950, I was dating my future hu...

YOUNG LOVE: For Valentine’s Day, we wanted to share this memory from Kane resident Frances Wolfe Haight of meeting her husband. She calls it “Young Lo...