Language is dynamic. The meaning of words is changed by time and circumstance and new ones are constantly being “added” to the English lexicon. This year, for example, Merriam-Webster will be introducing 455 new words to its dictionary. Although a list of those is not...

In many parts of the country March generally signals the approach of spring and the awakening of things like new leaves on trees and buds on shrubs and flowers pushing their way out of long dormant bulbs. Nights grow shorter, daylight tarries longer and life begins to...

It’s February and Valentine’s Day is literally “right around the corner” as the saying goes. During this month and on this universal holiday we all seem keenly aware of where our hearts are focused. We are eager to show that devotion and traditionally we demonstrate...

Fifty-eight years ago today, on January 13, 1964, Bob Dylan released his famous song “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” For any of us old enough to remember that day, we can say that “indeed they were.” We knew it, applauded it, and enthusiastically sang along. Whether...

If you are reading this today, Thursday, you are doing so at the same time that Senator Bob Dole lies in state at the U.S. Capitol. It’s a place that he spent several decades of his life serving as a Senator from Kansas and for some as the Majority Leader of the...

If you type “Thanksgiving Blog” into the search bar on your computer and hit return, you will doubtless get more “hits” than you care or have time to explore. Reading through the first dozen or so, you will likely see a predictable theme or two emerging. The majority...

There is a familiar old saying that it is likely most of us know: “A picture’s worth a thousand words” Or, to be more precise, there are several renditions of that expression. One substitutes the word “image” for “picture.” Another raises the stakes to 10,000. And the...

In 2019, fully sixty-five percent of the population of the United States was under 40 years of age, demographers tell us. And by applying simple math to that number, we can say with a good deal of certainty that twenty years ago on 9/11/2001 literally millions of...

There is an old song – a hundred years old now – but doubtless familiar to those folks that we refer to as seniors today. It was written by Jerome Kern in 1920 and it encourages listeners to “look for the silver lining.” The implication is, of course, that such can be...

Schools are opening across the country. Children are headed back to classrooms – for now. As the country and world begin to assess the potential of another more virulent strain of the delta virus, we are once again face-to-face with a different reality. But so many...