Mayor Chris Bobbitt: Two decades of service shaped by community

As I was thinking about the topic of this month’s column, I was also thinking about the Memorial Day holiday. The big event of the long weekend is the...

Bordentown History: Francis Hopkinson, the flag, your money and the branding of America

When we think of the American flag’s origins, the name Betsy Ross typically springs to mind, conjuring images...

Complex Simplicity: Lessons from a recently spayed pet

By Lumi Dabbene I suppose I should begin by introducing myself—the name’s Lumi, and I’m a young dog who...

Donnie Black: Grandparents are grand!

This story goes out to all of the grandparents out there. I am so lucky to have had...

Bordentown History: Which side are you on?

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, many critics and historians evaluate the legacy...

Target’s Life Stages

Anthropologists and other social scientists have analyzed and parsed the various stages in life, which I will define broadly here as infancy/early childhood, adolescence/young...

Home Sweet Home

I am home after three weeks away with the girls, mostly out of the country, and despite our neighbor’s joshing about the beer and...

My Virtual Friends

It’s never too late in life to make new friends, but at my age, it is a bit unusual to have three new friends,...

Sh*t Dad Says

After the Sh*t Mom Says video, it was inevitable that the Sh*t Dad Says video would follow, and it did, just in time for...

The Best Kind of Birthday Gift

This week I received one of the best gifts in my life. It came from my kids, and it was a mirror that they...

The Cutco Connection

A couple of months ago, I saw “Death of a Salesman” on Broadway. I knew nothing about the play and was excited mainly to...