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Why Goldfish Have a Longer Attention Span than We Do

We live in a world of constant, unpredictable, intermittent inattention. We are bludgeoned and bombarded with a tsunami of digital...

Now, where did I put my glasses?

A common medical term is sequela. You pronounce it like this: seh-QWEL-uh. And it means the after-effects of a disease. In other words, a...

The Big Bank Heist

It’s easy to drown in a sea of nostalgia and remember the good old days, which in actual fact may not have been so good. However, the...

In a Heartbeat, Life Unravels

Here in Lake Woebegone, spring has arrived. Flowers are blooming, grasses growing, farmers are plowing and planting, and we lovingly...

The Queen's Gambit and COVID: Checkmate

An international chess game is brewing as Russia has positioned more than 100,000 troops close to the border with Ukraine. Any further...

Do I have to draw you a picture?

The virus variants affect us all, and our lives hang in the balance Growing up in the murky world of thoroughbred racing on the East...

“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”

The most reprinted newspaper editorial in the English language appeared in the September 1897 New York Sun when eight-year-old Virginia...

Riding the COVID roller coaster. Have we reached the “Point of No Return”?

Our world plummeted down the rabbit hole of chaos in March 2020 when the nightmare of COVID disintegrated our daily lives. With the...

Lesson from the Tree Guys: Don't Get Killed

A brisk horizontal wind swept through our community in September. Not quite a tornado, but the winds toppled large trees, pulled down...