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Reflections on the deaths of four young people on their way home from worship in 1716.

A conservative school up the Island goes all-in on classical education. Attention must be paid.

This week, I went back to Facebook to be reminded of the humorous things my children said when they were little.

Across Long Island Sound in the Nutmeg State, a legislator has been trying to get ranked-choice voting to stick since 2017.

Our family has an overdeveloped muscle for nostalgia, and the kitchen is the epicenter where we exercise it.

As one Trump acolyte in Iowa said, “It’s good not to be liked — being strong is better.”

After a few days when the ponds were frozen enough to skate on, we might as well start looking forward to the boating season.

The funniest scene in the funniest television program was the moment in the old “Andy Griffith Show” when Gomer Pyle makes a citizen’s arrest of Barney Fife on the Main Street of Mayberry. And does the idea ever have staying power.

I wrote my own obituary not long ago, and when I showed it to a co-worker, she broke out in uncontrollable laughter.

Grade schoolers here woke up unhappy on Tuesday. There had been a bit of snow, but not enough for a delayed start, let alone a day off.

The pain of planned obsolescence.

The New Year’s Day plunges here were communal convocations as reassuring as any you’d find at a church or at any other gathering.