Treasured tradition

Black Friday was fun! Yesterday’s Game Plan column was written well before the horrible news about shopping gone bad in Long Island, but it feels ever more meaningful now — Keeping It Light on Black Friday. It seems when electronics and/or toys are...

Grateful and kind

As I head out for the Thanksgiving holiday, I leave you with today’s Game Plan column called Try Kindness in Trying Times. I find that people are too quick to lash out and judge others without any knowledge of what might be really going on. We can’t...

Let’s get physical

True confession time. Prior to beginning work with a personal trainer about a month ago, I was doing the same darned thing at the gym, over and over. The treadmill, the weights. And even though in some respects that served me well, I cannot begin to describe how much...

Imagine

I’m quite certain this wasn’t meant to elicit a laugh, but it sure did. There’s a Reuters story in The New York Times that says the Vatican newspaper has forgiven John Lennon for declaring back in 1966 that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus...

Love wisdom

For the second Sunday in a row, I share words of wisdom from The New York Times “Vows” column, this time from bride Caroline Tiger’s book: May you date people who chew with their mouths closed and turn their cellphone off during dinner. May you fall...