Author: John Spevak

I am strongly attracted to “the simple life.” That has been true since I was in high school and read an author who praised the simple life in his book “Walden.” The author, Henry David Thoreau, ...

According to the results of a recent poll by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation, Americans are losing faith in the value of a college education. Overall, according to that poll as reported by the Associated Press, only 36 percent...

Today’s column is a plea to all owners of dogs, especially big dogs, not to let their dogs run loose—knowingly or unknowingly — especially in residential neighborhoods. Longtime readers of this column may remember my writing...

In a recent column I wrote about Christopher Kerr, a doctor who is the director of a hospice in Buffalo, NY, and the book he wrote about end-of-life dreams. I focused in that column on the hope and meaning he gives to people at...