I don’t wait with bated breath for the lists of new words added to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate and Oxford English dictionaries each year, but I always smile when they arrive. 2025 additions were announced in late September: Oxford added more than 500 new words and phrases, and the 12th ...
Each Monday we’ll take a look back at the highlights from the week that was in high school football. This week featured a couple upsets, a dominating performance from Wash High, a Peters Township comeback and another big night for Ben Hays. A Hiller of a comeback: Rallying back from a ...
It’s the last gasp of summer, a morning that feels more July than late September. My daughter sleeps snuggly in the baby carrier that’s become an extension of myself, and my son leads me confidently across the park, to His Swing, the only one low enough to the ground for a toddler to ride ...
There are few instances when I can consider myself ahead of the fashion curve but regarding matters of vintage side by side shotguns I got on board earlier than most. Vintage or classic American side by side shotguns such as Ithaca, Fox Sterlingworth, Parker, L.C. Smith,and a host of others too ...
Flipping through the cable channels this week, I happened upon “The Sound of Music” – the one film I will always stop to watch no matter how many times I’ve seen it. Turner Classic Movies was showing Julie Andrews films to mark her 90th birthday. She starred in dozens of films, but ...
Q. My big brother says I need to stop acting so smart at school. I asked him to clarify and he said, “Stop answering all the questions.” I find that to be ridiculous. I’m at school to learn. I get excited when I know something, so my hand goes right up. He says I won’t be popular if ...
