As March springs forward, I’m heartened by the thawing of winter. Even with occasional gray days and cold rain, I welcome the crocuses and daffodils awakening, eagerly poking out of ...READ MORE

The Good Wordleby Hudson CooperThere are many puzzles that are comprised of words and letters. Crossword puzzles, Jumbles, word search, and Boggle to name a few. However, the one that ...READ MORE

BEING PREPARED TAKES MORE TIME THAN YOU THINK. A LOT MORE. Scott PasseserLike many of us, you may be in a job-hunting mode these days. So imagine you wake up ...READ MORE

​WITH UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF UNEMPLOYMENT THESE DAYS, JOB HUNTING HAS GOTTEN MUCH MORE DIFFICULTScott Passeser​Originally published as a column in Long Island Business News November 20-26, 2020  There are more candidates ...READ MORE

A COMMITMENT TO TENNIS EXCELLENCE, LATER IN LIFE. MUCH LATER. MJ Hanley-Goff After spending most of four decades as a magazine editor –the last seven years as editor of The ...READ MORE

BIKING ACROSS COUNTRY AT 16. THEN AT 60. AND 65. Stephen Jones When I was 16, I took a bike trip across the country, riding from New Jersey to San ...READ MORE

LIVING OVERSEAS HAS ITS ESCAPADES, PERKS & CHALLENGES James Durston “If everyone knew how great being an expat was, there’d be no one left at home.” Those are the words ...READ MORE

IS PLANNING TO AGE 100 ENOUGH? Ronald W. Rogé SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, I was sitting in my dentist’s waiting room and spotted the cover of a National Geographic magazine, which ...READ MORE

MY 60-YEAR QUEST TO BECOME A NOVELIST Patricia King AS YOU READ THIS, YOU WILL HAVE A HARD TIME FIGURING OUT IF I AM BRAGGING OR COMPLAINING. I will tell ...READ MORE

A JOURNEY INTO THE DEVIL’S THROAT Paula Ann Murphy OUR SHIP ARRIVED EARLY as the fog rose in Paranagua, Brazil.  After hiking in the mist, we rode to the Curituba ...READ MORE

A PARABLE FOR PEOPLE OUR AGE–AND THESE TIMES Ronald W. Rogé REMEMBER THE MOVIE, “The French Connection”?  It was on TV the other day and I noticed it came out ...READ MORE