Marcy’s vacation week offers a holiday column excerpted from her book, Rounding Third … originally from 2006. Christmastime is pure nostalgia. Many of my holiday memories began with our children’s arrival. I will never forget the total exhaustion of falling into bed after filling the ...

We have lived on Chautauqua Lake now for over 30 years and have very seldom seen the lake, as it now is, iced-over before Christmas. It may have happened once or twice before, but then, I think, it was only partially frozen. The snowfall this year has also been significant, i.e. the kind of ...

The holidays are upon us, and I’m exhausted. Not from the typical pressures of the season. No, I’m exhausted from being subject to a President who, just when any reasonable person wonders whether he can go any lower, seems to say, “hold my Diet Coke.” Exhibit A from this week (and ...

Coming home from college for winter break, I decided to revisit a classic winter film while recovering from my wisdom teeth extraction. That movie was It’s a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra. Although the film was released in 1946, it contains themes that transcend eras. One element ...

If anybody knows how to do winter well, it’s the Scandinavians. They just seem to glide through the long dark months like shooting stars, long hair tucked into knitted caps, warm wool sweaters to greet the day, candlelit restaurants in cozy little towns; board games with friends in front of ...

The following is a response to an opinion in the Jamestown Post-Journal on Dec. 4, 2025. I was a JCC Total Fitness member from 2000 to 2020, until it was closed down by the state in early March 2020 due to COVID. JCC Life Fitness had to close, half way through my 2019-2020 membership. In ...