When I was a young flight attendant for American Airlines, I actually enjoyed working Christmas Day. Passenger loads were always light, and it was fun having time to really talk to people. In most service industries, employees with seniority don’t usually have to work Christmas Eve or ...

For many people, entry into a career of choice was accomplished through gradual predictable steps, starting with primary and secondary education, followed by years of college oriented toward a specific goal. Thus, we have today’s doctors, lawyers, educators, and accountants, as well as ...

No matter where we go, it’s impossible to escape inflation. The gas pump. The grocery store. The Christmas tree farm. No matter how uncomfortable or politically inconvenient, it’s an inevitable truth that everything we buy these days costs more. Except, it is politically inconvenient for ...

As we enter 2022, most likely another challenging year, and to counter any negative impression created from the Times Observer’s daily front page sex offender article and such, and to accentuate the positive, I submit the following. Warren has a long history of philanthropy, of ...

Today I went to the home-school site for my information. I found almost a complete unit about the candy cane. First, the legend. Legend goes that a candy maker from Indiana was trying to make a candy that would help everyone remember what Christmas is all about. He hit upon the idea for ...

The Christmas train is a-comin'. There's no ETA here. Christmas won't arrive at some estimated time – it always arrives exactly on schedule. The only problem with that scenario is my mental picture of the train, with me running after it, unable to catch up. Again. I'm going to try as ...