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For decades, the American economy has encouraged consumers to buy bigger, buy more often, and treat constant consumption as a marker of comfor…

Bob Hope’s American Dream was simple. He wanted to entertain; he wanted to make people laugh. Throughout most of the 20th century, he did just that.

Welcome to the “Sweetie Pie Senior” column. Not really, but my daughter said my columns could more aptly be titled “Grumpy Elder.” So, let me …

I suppose it could have started out as a wager; the notion that, outside of a normal context, something treasured would go unnoticed, unapprec…

Exiting Planet Fitness, I headed over to Stop & Shop walking with an upbeat stride to the tunes circulating through my ears via my Beats h…

New Hampshire’s political elites quickly pointed fingers after a Democratic National Committee panel voted last week to strip the Granite Stat…

This happens often on an exposed ridgeline. There in that perilous space of unclaimed earth between a summit and a line of forest trees I witn…

A headline in a recent ��������APP caught my eye. It was actually a local police log, and the lead story was about a man described as “elder…

There’s a strange thing that often happens as we get older. We either become invisible, or are underestimated as to our knowledge, humor and a…

To say that the early 21st century is a turbulent era is an understatement. In the last two decades, the international system has experienced …

Dorothea Dix believed that there was a great deal of good that needed to be done in the world in which she lived. She found that there was ind…

In June, three separate sewage overflows and main breaks sent millions of gallons of untreated wastewater down the Merrimack River, through Ne…

“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”

Let’s be honest; when kids nowadays say, “I’m bored,” it hits differently. Maybe it triggers guilt. Maybe frustration. Or perhaps it’s that cr…

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of educational columns fostering environmental stewardship and leadership coordinated by ACES — The All…

She just lay there peacefully tethered but surely wishing to be untethered. So beautiful. A whiteness that blended with yellowish hues of sunl…

Each year, as I’d start the period of putting together container gardens to decorate our front patio and side deck, I’d go in search of planti…

Donald Trump is a divider. That is not a revelation, but it is worthwhile to point out just how much he is working outside the realm of Americ…

A secret shopper survey conducted by researchers at Yale University and published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association…

Clay Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, shared an interesting observation of a college classroom in his Feb. 1 New York Times arti…

“In nature, nothing exists alone.”

The American spirit is the heartbeat of our greatness. You’ll see it in the tenacity of farmworkers and the unique drive of dedicated craftsme…

When people ask why I love America, my answer is simple.

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it …”

Is there an area in your neighborhood that with a little care and removal of litter would increase property values? Do you enjoy gardening? Ar…

For many bands, the light show is almost as integral to the live act as the music, so much so, in fact, that lighting directors are often hera…