An overnight heavy dew and thick fog greeted me the other morning. Leaves are turning on the trees. The morning glories and marigolds have been replaced at my house with mums and pumpkins. Autumn is in the air. And squirrels are working overtime, including Stumpy, the super squirrel ...

A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida's Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn't know how lucky it was. Across Florida, builders are required to obtain permits from the state to capture and relocate gopher tortoises found on development ...

During the past six weeks, President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to attack and destroy four speed boats in the Caribbean Sea, 1,500 miles from the United States. The president revealed that the attacks were conducted without warning, were intended not to stop but to kill all persons on ...

Schadenfreude. Ever heard of it? I hadn’t until fairly recently. But I was amazed by the concept, and now that I know about this German word, I can’t unsee it in our world at large. It’s definition, via Oxford Languages: “Pleasure derived by someone from another person’s ...

It has been a long time since a Western country has won a war. It can now be said that Israel has won its war on Iran and its proxies in the Middle East, with the assistance of the United States -- and, in particular, President Donald Trump. On Oct. 7, 2023, the genocidal terror group Hamas ...

Just after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a New York Times/Siena poll found that Americans believe polarization is the second most serious challenge facing the nation. (The economy came in first.) As recently as one year ago, fewer than 1% of registered voters cited polarization as a ...