We're going to try to cut back on that and let this situation die down a little bit.

We're going to try to cut back on that and let this situation die down a little bit.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, read more

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be.

I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be.

We think it is very regrettable that shortly after the murder the North African community was immediately accused, certainly now read more

We think it is very regrettable that shortly after the murder the North African community was immediately accused, certainly now that it appears the culprits were not from that community.

People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult read more

People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is read more

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, read more

Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, in the middle snow fall zone we could have up to 50 percent more deer, and in southern areas where we have a lot of agriculture in the landscape, perhaps around 15 percent fewer deer.

Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right read more

Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right of way.

I am sorely disappointed by the congresswoman's decision to proceed with her playboy fund-raiser, ... We have done everything we read more

I am sorely disappointed by the congresswoman's decision to proceed with her playboy fund-raiser, ... We have done everything we can and now we have no alternative but to take action. Loretta Sanchez will not be speaking at the Democratic National Convention next week.