Resolutions For The Birds
Last year at this time I wrote about my New Year’s resolutions to help birds. They largely focused on citizen science projects I would either undertake for the first time or continue to be involved…
Looking Ahead to 2020; What to Expect in the New Year
NEW YORK- Peering into the crystal snow globe, it’s time to predict, prognosticate, and presage into the year ahead. Without a pun we need the proverbial 2020 vision to decipher the political and security landscape…
Top 10 Birding Highlights of 2019
by Chris Bosak Weirs Times Columnist It’s time for my favorite column of the year. This is the time when I look back on the past year and give my top 10 birding highlights. Every…
Ragged Mountain Resort
December has been a fun month for skiers and snowboarders. We’ve had some good snowstorms and plenty of cold nights and even when Heat Miser showed up and delivered some liquid pre-snow weeks ago Cold…
The First Christmas Gift And Some Of The Others
As a child waiting for Christmas and the yearly gift exchange, while realizing that I was going to receive more than I gave, I also realized that I was not going to receive any of…
“A” is for Algebra
How many high school valedictorians does it take to solve for “X”? If you’re in the Detroit area, the answer is “More than one.” As reported by Chalkbeat, a non-profit news organization, Detroit’s Cody High…
Books For Christmas
If you are still looking for some gift ideas for on your Christmas List, here are a few suggestions of some of my favorite books that have something for everyone that you may not have…
Snow Much Fun!
What fun it is to be playing in the snow. The good skiing and hiking/snowshoeing right now makes it appear that winter is here to stay. Wow, winter has arrived and calendar winter doesn’t begin…
Afghanistan; A Taliban Deal?
UNITED NATIONS- President Donald Trump put Afghanistan back in the news again after his surprise Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops stationed in the embattled South Asian country. Besides bringing holiday cheer for American forces serving…
A Reader’s New Year’s Resolutions
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. – Annie Dillard I’m done with the usual resolutions: eat healthy, get more sleep, lose weight, de-stress. They are all good undertakings,…
Label Maker
As I grow older and life has thrown me a couple of curveballs along the way, I have found myself with no choice but to pay attention to the health choices I make. Not necessarily…
A New Hampshire Roadmap
One of the downsides to our first-in-the-nation presidential primary is the proliferation of political ads during Thanksgiving holiday football games. One of the most bizarre this year came from Democrat Tom Steyer. Steyer justified his…
UN Confab Views Global Christian Persecution
UNITED NATIONS—The stunning silence of the mainstream media which often overlooks ongoing anti-religious violence has become a sad barometer of our secular societies. Clearly, while most of the attacks are “somewhere else” be it the…
Last Minute Shopping
I won’t be shopping on Black Friday again this year. It doesn’t make much sense to me to stay up late on Thanksgiving night, after ingesting a significant amount of tryptophan, and then fight crowds…
It’s Snowtime!
We aren’t buried like we were last year at this time but we have received some natural snow. Add to that the many cold nights that have been perfect for blowing man-made snow. Now lots…