Between Sunrise and Sunset

The Value of a Broken Heart

Choose Your Attitude

A random memory just popped up in my mind’s rotation: I’m 10-years-old or so, and I’m on an adventure with my Girl Scout troop. We are with throngs of people in the Milwaukee Arena for the Holiday Folk Fair International. We’re passing through a makeshift marketplace on our way to a stage where we’re going […]

It so happens that I was gifted a vintage, iridescent dragonfly broach recently by an old friend—a collector of fine art and jewelry. I hadn’t done a thing to deserve such an extravagant surprise, although my friend insists that it was merely repayment for my kindness. I told my friend there’s not a price for […]

As the first heat wave of summer spreads over Bethlehem like a smothering Woolrich blanket, there’s an eagerness in knowing that the city’s public swimming pools will soon open for the season. This includes the newly renovated Memorial Pool on Illick’s Mill Road. When it debuts next week, Memorial Pool will no longer be just […]

Image by Kevin Graham from Pixabay I can’t tell you how many Memorial Day parades I’ve been to, but it’s a lot. I remember being a little kid, sitting on the curb, watching police cars roll down the middle of the street, lights strobing, as a seemingly-ancient guard of World War I veterans shuffle-marched their […]

As if there weren’t already enough choices to make from among the 42,200 items shelved, on average, at a supermarket, the newest Weis Market in my neighborhood added a feature I’ve never before seen in such a setting: a staffed candy counter. It’s tucked away in the bakery department between a glass case filled with […]

Did you give a whoop-whoop and a high-five as you unlooped your mask from your ears the other day, knowing it had been proclaimed safe by the CDC for vaccinated people to do so? Did your mood lighten considerably with the realization that many pandemic practices were being repealed? Did you feel wild and strangely […]