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Keep school students safe by obeying the law

This school year is already rife with stressors.Between the potential for students to shift between learning models, parents’ concerns about child care, and the struggles teachers will have ensuring educational benchmarks are met, the 2020-21 school year is sure to present many challenges.And ...

How to lose your ‘quarantine 15’

The pandemic ruined a lot of things: graduations, vacations, family reunions, the economy, and maybe even your New YearĢƵ resolutions. Forget losing weight, am I right? The Quarantine 15 is, says YaleĢƵ medical school, a “perfect storm for people who struggle with weight.” We’re stuck ...

What about Heroes?

Is there anybody who has not fantasized about being some type of superhero or having superpowers? What superpower would you like to have the most? Perhaps being able to fly? Or having super strength or some type of super emanation that you could project like fire or force fields. Maybe mind ...

The improbable rise of Joe Biden

Donald Trump may have won the most unlikely presidential election victory in U.S. history. But no one has ever taken a longer, more treacherous road to the White House than Joe Biden. If he should win, he will confirm that in American politics, nothing is ever final.He arrived in the U.S. ...

In search of my nine-dollar heirloom

As the joke has it, nine months from the start of the pandemic – right around January 2021 – we’ll experience a baby boom. After all, some activities are better suited to sheltered lifestyles than others.But while the gestation period has months remaining, pandemic garden propagation is ...

It’s okay to not be okay

Anyone who says they haven’t been impacted by the stress of the past five months is either a superhero or is lying to themselves.In ways small and large and across all age groups and genders, COVID-19 has changed our ability to live in the same way we did last year at this time.For some, that ...