In the ever-lovely “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” we hear Charlie’s security blanket-toting friend Linus quote a line from the Gospel of Luke. “Behold, I bring you tidings of great joy…
Hypocrisy can’t lead, because people won’t follow
Early on in this weird year of pandemic a very ugly trend began. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s face of COVID-19, issued a missive stating that everyone must wear masks…
We have to allow ourselves to mourn properly
I’ve done quite a few funerals of late. Not on the scale of Father Regis Ryan at the Archangel Gabriel parish, whose comforting nature and older congregation have made him…
It’s OK to vote your own way
“You are voting for (name of local pol), right?” I overheard one neighbor ask another last week. “I’m not, I’m voting for the other guy.” came the reply. “He’s not…
Guess what? On Nov. 4 we still have to be neighbors
When this issue of the gazette hits newsstands, the presidential election will be four days out. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, Americans will decide who will sit in the Oval Office…
The soundtrack of my youth takes a massive loss
Eddie Van Halen? He can’t be dead, can he? The first time I saw Eddie and his band Van Halen was 1983. I was 14. I didn’t know what to…
Proverb: ‘There, but by the grace of God, go I’
I have two friends who both joined the Navy as young men. They know and love one another, and both made a career of the Navy, but their courses are…





