Recently, my grandson was playing a video game about the future of the planet’s environment. The objective is to save the Earth after the apocalypse.Of course, there’s an element of overcoming …

Life comes in puzzle pieces – phases – each one seemingly insignificant, yet, each one critical to us and those we love and/or affect, significantly or minimally. People have long searched for …

Chatterbox has been ahead of the curve, part of the curve, and occasionally missed the curve. Still, though the time frame fluctuates, often, subjects of this column show up after our chats.

… And physician heal thyself, and follow your own best advice, etcetera, and so on. Wish I had; I usually do. Today again, I divert myself from the column planned. It was light; it was right for …

This isn’t the column I planned for this week. However, Christmas is in three days, and we should mention it. Done. It’s at this moment that I’m tempted to just continue with the column I had …

Sometimes, the universe sends us a message. It’s light and optional or it’s dark and imperative. Recently, I’ve been getting light and optional – but repeatedly, and they started to glitch …

The holidays are no place for anything but glitter and shine, frolic and fun, love and laughter ... oh, sorry, that’s the Hallmark movie channel. Those people have stagehands, but we’ve mentioned …

We are now entering the most beautiful time of the year but, regardless of the holiday group hug, recent elections leave Americans cold. We’re facing the continuation of a divided, implacable, …

The futures of Americans, and the world, rely on many things other than politics. Yet, so many of those things start with politics. Nations around the world took longer to get on the …

All Chattereaders know I’m a sap for all things about this nation that are, or were once, good and considered to be our great strength. Americans are a single people, nonspecifically and none in …

Election Day is coming and voting is a great privilege denied to many. It’s imperative that we the people vote as objectively and wisely as we can for unity, strength and justice across the …

A dear cousin recently suggested I rerun this column; I had to oblige. Chatterbox once talked about young people committing their lives to love, marriage and a baby carriage. We talked about why …

Parenting has been a topic for various reasons on many occasions here at Chatterbox and one of the reasons is that parenting is one of the single most important influences we have on life around the …

It’s official; no matter how we calculate it, our Herald is completely 20 and here at Chatterbox, we’re going to “go there.” I include myself in this family with, believe me, the greatest of humility and the most resounding joy for all who are and have been part of this undertaking as we now mark two successful decades completed.

It really is amazing that, even in our post COVID days, while we are returning to a somewhat normal life, we’re still haunted. The residual mind games, wariness, even low level fear stay with us. …

What are the ordinary people most afraid of for America? No one can argue with the fact that the entire planet is in a situation that is dangerous. Much of what we are facing on our planet right …

More years ago than I care to remember, someone was working at my house. The lawn guys showed up and I closed the window, saying something about how noisy the machines were. My friend responded to …

In life, we are all called upon to do all kinds of things. From playing in the sandbox to how we behave at the office, to being a world citizen, we perform. How we perform is a whole other ball of …

COVID did a lot of strange things to the world, to people and the traditions we knew, what we did and how we did it. We’re not all completely in the clear, but the world is blessed in that we are …

Here at Chatterbox, we moan about “corporate” a lot. It’s not just apropos, it’s necessary … until we change things. We are all dealing with the inconveniences of not only America’s …