This being my birthday month and all, I note that in 2024 — the last year data is available — the life expectancy in the United States rose to 79, the highest mark in American history. And they expect ...

The author, center, recently made time for a round of golf with friends Becky Boren and Susan Lucas. “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” — Winnie the ...

The crippling snow and ice storm that swept through our region this past weekend coupled with record freezing temperatures presents many challenges to people shoveling and plowing and just trying to ...

Dear Lucas: My girlfriend and I have been dating for 5 years. It feels like we’re further from marriage than we were at the start. At 35, I feel like an old chunk of coal, forever running (or rolling, ...

Friends, when’s the last time you checked in on your loved ones? No, I mean really checked in. I’d forgotten the importance of this great big interwoven web of creation until this week when — in one ...

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On Nov. 10, a retirement announcement by U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ 12) activated several events inside my home. First, furniture was moved out of the living room, allowing space for ...

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New Jersey recently handed out almost a million dollars in grants to help schools go phone-free. Let me say that again: We are spending nearly a million dollars to teach children to put something in a ...

We have a huge health care problem in the United States. We need to offer health insurance to all our citizens to improve our health outcomes, but the costs of entitlement programs such as Medicare, ...