As I sit here and type my column this week, I am sitting in a chair at the Charlotte, N.C., airport— 1,524 miles and over 23 driving hours from...

Sixteen thousand people is a lot of people.In fact, it’s a professional basketball arena’s worth of people.And if you were to begin filling up...

I was always kind of lucky in my youth when it came to finding gainful employment. Well, at least I think I was lucky. I never really had to look...

Ahh, the middle of July. The true dog days of summer. Back in the hills of North Boston when I was growing up, the days seemed to last forever. It...

My mom, Frances Korczak, was an old-time Polish cook. She learned to make all of the ethnic Polish dishes from her mother who brought them with her...

Originally, the plan for my dad, mom, and me was to go to a Minnesota Twins afternoon game at Target Field on Saturday, June 15—a Pride Day game--...

With a name like Alonso Navaro, most people up here in northern Minnesota assume I’m from Mexico, even though I’m not brown-skinned, but I do have...

I’m going to tell you a personally frustrating, but very real story that occurred on May 9.I received the following message from my boss, Julie...

Sixteen-year-old Cheslen Hayden had her arm up to her elbow inside a cow to turn her breached calf. Soon the distressed cow was able to deliver her...

Last Saturday, I was walking back home from the Grand March of GMR’s Great Gatsby Prom, moving a little quicker due to the brisk weather.But,...

I have finally braved some new recipes I’ve been meaning to try and I can’t believe I haven’t tried these sooner! English muffins are popular in...

Temptation is a battle that man has had to deal with since the very beginning. Just ask Eve who succumbed to it and then dragged Adam along with...

As I’m typing this column on Monday morning, March 25, the sky is overcast, but the ground is generally devoid of that white stuff we call snow....

My granddaughter showed me a picture that she drew of her uncle’s family. She had the mom, dad and their two kids in the picture. I noticed that...

For nearly nine years, I’ve covered some wonderful Gator moments—of the individual and team variety—on the highest stages, including state...