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My first vaccination went really well. I made an appointment at the hospital, where everything was very organized, everyone was cheerful and helpful, and I suffered no ill effects short of a one-day sore arm. I am relieved, and feel I can look forward a little. Even so, if the virus were not holding me captive, the cold would be. And so it is that I find myself in the cookbook section of my house. The books are heavy, bowing their shelves a little above the counter in the laundry room. There is no space for them anywhere else. The main question is: why do I need them? I can find any recipe I ...

The Times-Reporter It is that time of year when we are ready to start anew. Ready to throw out the old and clean out the excesses and baggage left behind by the past unsettling year. The first two places I like to hit are my computer and my phone. It is amazing how many useless, unwanted emails are taking up space because I don’t take the time to delete them daily ... or sometimes at all. FYI: It takes a lot of time to get rid of the three or four thousand that have piled up. I know I could just delete them all and start fresh, but there might be several things that I really need to keep fo...

The Times-Reporter It’s time for those new resolutions, and, as always, I can’t wait to make them. The whole blank year ahead is inviting. What can I plan and vow to carry out that I might be able to stick to? Never mind those diet and weight loss pronouncements, or those promises to get all my steps in every day. We all know it is the rare person, who manages that. Last year my big resolution was to cull and organize my office, and to keep it that way ... forever. I actually managed it, until this past week when every electronic piece of equipment I own decided to go on strike. The route...

The Times-Reporter I’m a news junkie. There’s no getting around it. The older I get, the more likely I will be found checking out the TV news channels and then watching the every five-minute repeats to see which spin each channel sends out. My interest lies mainly in objectivity, something very few of the stations today practice. In my high school and college journalism classes, objectivity was unbreakable, unchangeable, unfailing law. If you wanted to pass the course, you never, I mean, NEVER, made anything up, expressed an opinion or reported something you couldn’t substantiate and at...