My Turn

By Bruce Frassinelli Email: bfrassinelli@ptd.net Before the COVID-19 pandemic threw a monkey wrench into long-distance driving, I made a 1,000-mile

By Bruce Frassinelli Email: bfrassinelli@ptd.net The other day, I stopped at a diner near my home. At the table next

By Bruce Frassinelli Email: bfrassinelli@ptd.net I have three daughters-in-law. Two of them call me “Bruce’’; the third does not call

By Bruce Frassinelli Email: bfrassinelli@ptd.net Is it ever ethical to lie? I guess the textbook answer is “no,” but, in

By Bruce Frassinelli Email: bfrassinelli@ptd.net As most of you, I was not required to take a citizenship test at some

All of us have gone through our time at home growing up surrounded by strange and interesting phrases By Bruce

By Bruce Frassinelli Email: bfrassinelli@ptd.net My wife’s uncle was a crier. Uncle Larry would blubber at the slightest emotional provocation.

By Bruce Frassinelli Email: bfrassinelli@ptd.net The mailgram arrived 40 years ago, on July 2, 1981, signed by then-President Ronald Reagan.

By Bruce Frassinelli Email: bfrassinelli@ptd.net Spring forward; fall back. This is the memory jogger that reminds us what to do

By Bruce Frassinelli Email: bfrassinelli@ptd.net Each generation has its own way of speaking. When I was a teenager, we had