I’ve been thinking lately that there are some periods in life that are often especially hard to navigate, young adulthood and middle age. And maybe every period in between and after.

I recently discovered Aurora Bistro, a hidden gem located between the post office and the wine and spirits store in Buckingham Green Shopping Center on York Road. And its delightful proprietor.

I can’t find it in myself to appreciate the finer points of automobiles. I like a car that can take me safely from place to place, preferably with seat warmers and a CD player.

Comedian Tim Conniff has observed just how much things have changed with kids these days. “My neighbor’s 14-year-old daughter goes on and on about how Aruba is her favorite island. When I was …

We were all forced onto alternate paths during the COVID pandemic. But for some of us, like Thornton “Thor” Giese, the rerouting was especially dramatic. “I was all set to start a job teaching …

Last month, the U.S. Postal Service issued the newest stamp in its Literary Arts series honoring novelist Saul Bellow, a recipient of both the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes.

Jeff Bryan has cared for the graves at Beulah Cemetery for 30 years now. Jeff doesn’t see caring for the dead as a job. It’s a calling. “I believe that God brought me to this place at this time …

My Nana was a great storyteller. Not that I was particularly interested in her stories. At least not at 10 or 20 or 30 years of age. Then by the time I realized what a fascinating life she had led …

As my husband and I sat in the waiting room of Animal Hospital of Warwick in Jamison with our two old dogs, one 16, the other 17, I thought about how hard the long goodbye can be, and yet how …

I can’t parallel park. Period. And I’ve come to accept that about myself. Not even a Mini Cooper in the middle of a football field with two professional driving instructors front and back …

“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles”…and In Full Swing. These are a few of my favorite things. In Full Swing is a thrift shop at 225 W. State St. in Doylestown …

When my feet were young, I bought shoes off the rack at discount shoe stores and chose them according to how good they made my legs look and how well they matched my outfit. I remember nimbly …

I ask Doug Mortimer to describe his job in one word. “Fun,” he answers, and his work-wife Kathi Stefany agrees. Doug’s real-life wife is Donna Mortimer and she’s a close friend of Kathi’s. Doug is the owner of Douglas Jewelers in the Barn Plaza in Doylestown, and together …

Last snow day, I took out a box of old photos of my pets from years gone by and cried and smiled intermittently for three hours straight. There was Jinx, Happy, Daisy, Darcy, Boo, Neo and Trinity, …

It was a dark and stormy night in 1983. I was so enamored with Bucks County I was willing to drive an hour and a half each way to my job. On my way home from work, in a driving rain, my AMC Concord …

I read some good advice recently. If you are being chased by a taxidermist, do not play dead. Cynthia Brailovski is a taxidermist and owner of True Mount Taxidermy in Quakertown. She is almost …

Well, we’re four days into 2024, and I trust in the words of the Frank Sinatra song, “The best is yet to come.” Last week we met a woman who helps people exit the world. This week, let me introduce you to a woman who helps them enter.

It’s my tradition on New Year’s Eve to watch one of those shows that come on every year about celebrities who have died in the past 12 months. It’s not that I want to watch. It’s just that I somehow can’t not watch.

I’ve been accused of anthropomorphizing. Really, I’ve never been accused of this, but I probably would be if I hung out with other high school English teachers, and we talked a lot. I imagine we would discuss …

According to George Orwell, “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some …