Rarely, only a couple of dozens of times over all these years, has a stranger stopped me in town and...

On August 30, the Americans left Afghanistan. On August 31, Taliban operatives attacked the home of the father, his wife...

It began with the telephone answering machine.  If you liked, messages did not need to be returned.  That was the...

"...When I came to Hungary, I was welcomed with open arms by my wife’s family. I see these families coming...

Recently, Whoopi Goldberg was temporarily cancelled from the popular daytime television show The View for saying the Holocaust was about...

Forty-five years ago, when I was young and believed I would never be an old lady, a neighbor knocked on...

My grandfather died during the flu epidemic of 1917 when he was 36 year old. He contracted pneumonia before the...

I hadn’t seen her in years. She and I are long-term white privileged, holistic health aficionados as proven by the organic...

It’s been eleven years since Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis died after courageous and lengthy battles against multiple bouts of cancer. During...

Finding out about the vaccination presents a troublesome and hazardous situation where reality is prognosticated by the power of each...

Because of a promise I made to myself — inspired by the current polarized political climate, as well as Covid...

Why does almost half the U.S. populace still support a person with such heinous character traits? Why did more black...

Because mingling our sweat, half naked, in a small space reeking of warm bleach is societally acceptable, sharing intimacies with...

Between the ages of 13 and 20, I was the target of five felonious sexual assaults of varying severity and...

Several years ago while cross-country skiing with my 18-year-old daughter, we came upon an icy patch next to a ledge....

The question concerning prisoner’s rights to vaccinations is one of medical ethics. Who has the right to decide whose life...

I met him when he joined a program I was facilitating in an Ulster County prison. Although he was younger than...

How could I have known what was to come the day the drive over the mountain, through the Hudson Valley...

The old attitude, that women were responsible for what happened to them at the hands of men, was prevalent among...

New Paltz is much more diverse than it was decades ago, has more traffic and tourism. How do residents feel...