by Guy Sayles | Feb 4, 2016 | Opinion
The heavy snow that recently fell in our area brought surprising gifts: the requirement (and permission) to step away for a few days from routine busyness, to have longer stretches of uninterrupted time to read and to think, and to rest without irrational guilt over...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 14, 2016 | Opinion
Much has transpired in the past few weeks. School children returned to the classroom, the 12 Days of Christmas culminated in the Feast of Epiphany, and the reckoning with credit card bills from December’s shopping sprees has begun. College football fans,...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 16, 2015 | Opinion
I enjoy Christmas – always have. Every year I look forward to: Children’s pageants, complete with Burger King crowns for wise men, bath-robed shepherds and aluminum foil-wings for angels Misty-eyed singing of “Silent Night” in the glow of...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 9, 2015 | Opinion
People went to the polls last Tuesday, an election day starting the one-year countdown in a presidential campaign that seems already to have gone on forever. Contenders for their party’s nomination are, in addition to staging media events, attempting to build...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 26, 2015 | Opinion
We all know the overworked cliché that defines insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” As worn and familiar as it is, we keep proving its essential wisdom. It happens in the groups of which we’re a...
