R-T Columns
Too much sittin’ around | Mark’s Remarks
I’m coming up on one year since I retired from a 34 -year teaching career, and it has flown by at warp speed. I didn’t think it would. I wasn’t…
Read MorePeacekeeping | Mark’s Remarks
It occurs to me quite often how many of us spend an enormous amount of time trying to be proactive with people. If you are a people pleaser like me…
Read MoreTrust issues | Ott Observations
This opinion column started with a Letter to the Editor I wrote in November 2020 immediately after the election. My Republican friends and neighbors were aghast at the pending destruction…
Read MoreFavorite quotes of Lewis | Mark’s Remarks
We recently saw a performance of “The Screwtape Letters,” a story by C.S. Lewis which was made into a 90-minute play. It was extraordinary. I would recommend reading the book,…
Read MoreSittin’ in church | Mark’s Remarks
My brother and I have had issues with giggling for a long time. We have a mutual twisted sense of humor and if one of us goes off the rails…
Read MoreThe only real guardrails | Ott Observations
Throughout the first Trump presidency and after, there was constant media banter about the “guardrails of democracy.” Trump’s use of executive power was unprecedented in our history and raised many…
Read MoreVictim mentality | Mark’s Remarks
eing the victim is a lot of fun sometimes. You often get a lot of attention, at least for a while, from people who rally around you, feel sorry for…
Read MoreYou know what happens when you assume | Mark’s Remarks
It’s funny how things occur to you when you are older, and you think “Wow. If I’d only known.” Am I right? How often did you assume something that you…
Read MoreDownsizing or dismantling | Ott Observations
I think you would be hard-pressed to find an American who doesn’t think our federal government is too big and inefficient. Accordingly, there should be 100 percent consensus supporting what…
Read MoreWe aren’t in Mayberry, Dorothy | Mark’s Remarks
Regardless of how old we are or what era we grew up in, we all would like to be more trusting than we really should be. This fall, Michelle and…
Read MoreGenerosity Growing | Taste Buds
Taste Buds A new online column by Vivanda Felice and Pipa Benoit, pseudonyms for two Monroe County foodies dedicated to supporting and highlighting local food spirit and culture Generosity Growing …
Read MoreFascinating | Mark’s Remarks
There’s a lot of reflecting after one retires from a job, I think. You, of course, always wonder how things could have been different. You look back on things…
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