Kate Brandes’ creative energy seems boundless. She’s a novelist, watercolorist, printmaker, geologist, environmental scientist, professor, wife, mother and gardener.
When I think of searching for missing persons, my mind summons up hikers lost in the mountainous terrain and vast canyons of the American West.
Most senior citizens know about the Grandma telephone scam when a caller poses as a grandson. Telling a troubled tale, he tries to extract emergency money from his target.
Once again on the Fourth of July, the sharp, resounding voice of a big bell will ring out for this nation’s freedom, thanks to the Richland Historical Society.
This will be a school reunion unlike most others. The youngest of the alumni checking in will be about 5 years old, the oldest in their 40s.
Lately I’ve had the feeling I’m being held hostage by Too Many Questions. They appear, seemingly from nowhere, on that large white rectangle that hovers above my keyboard or on the small screen of my cell phone.
My husband and I drove to New Jersey and found ourselves in India. The real journey began there in Robbinsville, a little town not far from Trenton. What we sought suddenly stood before us — the …
Ralf W. Augstroze watched carefully in the April sunlight as colorful scenes of “The American Miracle” were being filmed at Washington Crossing Historic Park. He was overseeing camera crews …
Purge. Sort. Contain. Maintain. Those four words are a kind of mantra for Christen Fackler, an organizational guru who lives in Plumstead in an exceedingly neat old house. Christen has carved herself a …
I am only a casual observer of the skies most of the time, but I’ve always been right out there in the dark when celestial events were predicted. Even to the point of climbing rickety steps to a …
No hearts and flowers for Kathy Brown. The Stockton, N.J., woman has instead opted for the whimsical, even quirky, quality that dominates much of her artwork.
In the decade since Jay Armstrong learned he had an incurable disease that was causing a part of his brain to shrink, he has lived more lives than most of us — and shared more love.
Who’s afraid of the big AI? Well, maybe I am. War rages in the Middle East and Ukraine. Tyrants scheme and fume over elections all over the world. But I am caught up in my own little concerns about …
Linda Reider was studying horticulture at a Texas college when she was asked to donate some old sheets and towels to the local dog pound. The animals she saw there captured her heart and the next …
I just discovered I’ve got something in common with legions of other women, the likes of Taylor Swift and Meghan Markle, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Sally Ride and Venus Williams as well as about …
Ah, my beloved River Road. It’s always been a part of my life — and now it’s getting a bit of national recognition — but in a light I hadn’t considered. I’ve been traveling it since my …
Live evergreen wreaths, their red bows fluttering in the old hilltop cemetery, mark the veterans’ graves at the Upper Tinicum Cemetery in Upper Black Eddy during this holiday season.
Artist Kate Quinn Wright simply painted what she loved — and it won her the Bucks County Herald Award in memory of Joseph T. Wingert, founding publisher, at the 94th Juried Art Show at Phillips Mill.
A Tinicum Township artist’s connection to Bucks goes well beyond the county’s present boundaries, back to the time the Lenni Lenape roamed — and revered — this land. Neil Gross’s family has …
After years of working within the restraints of architectural drawing, a Richland woman has let her artistic passions loose and created what amounts to a pint-sized zoo. It was a passion Gerry Mulloy …