Joan Jaffe News Today

Howard Safir, who served as New York City's police commissioner from 1996 to 2000, died at 81 on Sept. 11, 2023.

A mail issue needs sortingOn Nov. 17, I left a small package at the West Lebanon post office to be delivered to a West Lebanon address, projected to arrive on Monday. When it had not arrived on Monday and indeed showed no movement after I left it at...

I have mixed emotions about the holidays — the jam-packed days before and between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve.My personal history of Christmas rests lightly on a past of Hannukah when I was a child and indifference when I was a young adult. But...

I recently received an email from a friend, a cri de coeur from a magnificent gardener: “Climate change, COVID-19, conspiracy theories and now jumping snake worms!”I decided a departure from 2021 was in order for a short while, and imagined inviting...