Today we are going to the movies. One night I had trouble sleeping so I got up and turned the TV on and selected Turner Classic Movies. Happily, the movie was “The Maltese Falcon,” one of my favorites. It was a 1941 production of Warner Brothers directed by John Huston who also wrote the ...

I sometimes have trouble sleeping. I’m blaming lack of sleep for all my bad decisions, and often for forgetting my purse. I need every excuse I can get. Last spring, I finally decided to try the natural sleep supplement Melatonin. Whoa, that’s good! If I needed some help to Slumbertown, ...

On Oct. 18, I participated in the “No Kings Rally” in Fredonia. On returning home I was subjected to scorn and derision, which was to me nothing but water off a duck’s back. Meantime the President’s followers are accusing those who disagree with him of being afflicted with Trump ...

A member of my family suggested that it might be timely to write an article about these two polar opposites whose names have recently been in the news. “Diversity” has become a bad name for some, but the juxtaposition of these two men between what is called “democratic socialism” ...

I am responding to the letter in paper on the No Kings march and rally held in two locations in our county. He completely missed the message of the movement. Instead he focused on some who used profanity, the words Nazi or dictator in their signs. He completely ignored the speeches made, the ...

That “words have consequences” is not a new idea, but it has gathered momentum of late. Maybe a better way of looking at it is to say that words are organic. They evolve, like a living thing, and affect and are affected by the environment in which they operate. Their meaning changes with ...