At first glance, Pennsylvania doesn’t stand out in the second annual College Free Speech Rankings, the results of a survey of more than 37,000 students in 159 colleges. You won’t find any of the state’s colleges listed near the top of the rankings, alongside Claremont McKenna College, nor ...

The timeless and beautiful old roses of our grandmother’s flower gardens are enjoying a surge of interest. We see it in the new shrub roses known as Knock Out roses and the beautiful shrub roses of David Austin. Roses were once thought of as difficult to cultivate taking hours of ...

I am not sure who sent me the flash mob of “Ode to Joy,” but thank you. It was delightful. The scene was a large plaza in Europe. First there was one bass playing the tune. He was joined by a cello. Next came a bassoon followed by violins, French horns, trombones, and trumpets. When the ...

It is the senior moment equivalent of “The dog ate my homework.” The cat ate my driver’s license. While I am not 100% sure of that, our resident feline, Finian, is the current perp under suspicion, and he is without an alibi. I asked him over and over, “What did you do with it?” ...

Masks work. Masks don’t work Six feet social distancing works. Six feet doesn’t work, it would take 27 feet. Vaccines work. Some vaccinated people are still getting sick, some dying. Follow the science. How? The Centers for Disease Control constantly contradicts itself. Some people ...

The old axiom, “You’re only as old as you feel” is true. Some days I feel 103, although I do work extra hard to keep my sense of humor at 27. I don’t know another way to handle feeling 103 except to laugh at it. The most amazing thing to me about aging is how much overlap there is ...