Out of loss, inspiration: Reflecting on Flight 3407 tragedy in songs, poetry
Updated: 03/21/10 9:40 AM
For Gunilla Theander Kester, the moment of insight came in a checkout line.
People Talk / A conversation with Melinda Rath Sanderson
Updated: 03/20/10 1:54 PM
Melinda Rath Sanderson spent more than half her 47 years away from Buffalo pursuing business interests throughout the country. Returning in 2003, she became executive director of the Women's Business Center at Canisius College.
Groups find temporary homes for military pets
Updated: 03/21/10 6:40 AM
When Maj. Randall Baucom received word that the Army was sending him to Iraq in 2006, he immediately began to worry about what he would do with his two mixed-breed dogs.
Discover Atacama region in Chile
Updated: 03/21/10 6:40 AM
In a desert oasis beside a roaring river, the handsome young Chilean reaches for my hand to help me over the rocks. He smiles. “Gracias,” I say.
Other Life News
Enjoy a sunlight stroll
Updated: 03/21/10 6:40 AM
Winter was no picnic, so now that spring is officially here you can look forward to spending some warm days ahead at the nearest park or playground.
Haunting ‘Album’ exposes family secrets
Updated: 03/21/10 11:50 AM
Penelope Lively’s latest foray into the human psyche considers the paradox of growing up in a large, secretive family wherein everyone is “utterly familiar and entirely unknown.”
Wising up to life beyond high school
Updated: 03/21/10 6:40 AM
While I’m away, readers give the advice:
Husband is absent most of time
Updated: 03/21/10 6:40 AM
Dear Abby: I have been married for 12 years to a man who is an excellent provider, but not a loving husband. He works out of town every week and comes home on weekends. When he’s away he ignores my phone calls and won’t answer any texts. We have three children and he doesn’t even communicate with them. This has been going on for a few years. I’m a loving wife and mother, and I feel I should be treated like a wife and not a weekend fling. Please give me some advice.
Columns
Giving cash without offense
Dear Miss Manners: A dear friend of many years has fallen on hard times. She is a single mother and her son will be starting college in the fall. She has confided to a mutual friend that she is worried that she may not be able to afford the costs. Her son is a wonderful young man, and I would like to help both of them out. He has a scholarship for his tuition, and I would like to pay his room and board for the upcoming year.