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I closed the door, but the cottage cheese called to me from the fridge like a sirens song.

Perhaps it is time we learn to separate individuals from ideologies.

I’m starting off the new book year and looking back to share some of my 2021 reading highlights with you. Maybe you’re looking for a short book or a long...

You could have pushed me down with a bookmark when my grandson Andrew Harkin announced he was narrating an audiobook of my 2016 short story anthology, “N...

Those who have graduated to senior status can likely attest to the body’s insistence that it’s grown tired, and enough is enough. The spirit may be willing, but the flesh has decided it’s far too weak.The business of managing an uncooperative body has been plaguing me ever since my last birthday when I turned … well, let’s just say, I turned over a few more years than I care to count. It gets real when there’s more time looking behind than looking forward.

Joy to all of you in the new year, as we get past the chagrin of holiday overeating and inactivity.I am a Type 2 diabetic, and have been for more than 20 years. It’s never interfered with eating whatever I want. My mom was diabetic and lost her vision to it. What I’m saying is: I eat with awareness that overindulgence will have a cost. Food is love, but I don’t want to go blind.In the season of cookie-baking and holiday treats, I was forced to be brutally honest with myself.