Opinion

To the Editor:

Calling all teens! Celebrate your favorite pop culture and geek fandoms!

7:30 morning coffee, my first cup when Becky calls me to the window to watch a large turkey stepping and bobbing across the path leading to the garden field as it heads into the woods. Later, sitting on the deck with a second cup searching email, we spot a young deer take delicate steps through the field on its never-ending search for something to eat. Another typical morning at home. Beautiful.

The school year is winding down and high school and college students alike are looking for summer jobs or internships. In some respects, these job experiences seem surprisingly distant from those of my youth. In other ways, they are very similar. As both an employer of college students and a father of two still in school, I have a few economic insights on summer work.

Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Indiana, once told me a story.

I can’t be the only one out there who is looking forward to a second Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump race for president about as much as cleaning my toilet.

A few weeks back I mentioned a news app called Smart News that features daily tantalizing headlines accompanied by brief articles. Here are some of their recent postings:

What should have been a time of excitement instead turned into a period of mourning.

I spent a considerable amount of time in my childhood trying hard not to be a girl.

Readers will have some sense of my age when I share that I can remember seeing the great Boston Celtic guard Bob Cousy “dribble out the clock.” Cousy was short, but he used his lack of height as an advantage as he led defenders on a merry chase for minutes — yes, minutes — to run out the clock. He was like a greased pig who couldn’t be caught, with this pig dribbling a basketball the entire time.