By Bob Gaydos
Three Bobs get together for breakfast, wind up talking about religion and manage to remain friends. Is it the seed for a new religion? Could be.

By Emily Theroux
In the continuum between “fiscal cliff” brinksmanship and “right-to-work” trickery, I can’t decide whether to laugh, throw rocks, or avert my gaze in disgust from the spectacle of angry old white men behaving churlishly.

By Michael Kaufman
A recent column in the Times Herald-Record chides educators for alleged over use of jargon and unfamiliar acronyms. But even if this were true they are not the only ones.

By Jeffrey Page
It seems that the toys we give our children are manufactured just about everywhere except where they live.

By Carrie Jacobson
It was a mid-autumn day in December, and the animals were having fun.

By Jeffrey Page
Grandchildren are a second chance to get things right.

By Bob Gaydos
The low-salt/sugar diet started about four months ago, the result of a long-delayed physical checkup and a decision that I wasn‘t ready for the slow-but-steady surrender to couch potato oblivion. Not by a long shot, it turns out to my pleasant surprise.

By Jean Webster
Others believe that the marriage of two men or two women endangers the marriages of the rest of us. (I haven’t figured that one out yet.)

By Emily Theroux
Is “Grover over”? Will Mitch pull the switch on the filibuster? Can Cantor cease his banter over tax cuts? Will Jan call a ban on Arizona’s “papers capers”?

By Bob Gaydos
As fate would have it, the Republican Party delivered Abraham Lincoln and John McCain to Americans, who made the wise choice each time.