Author: John Small

Recently I was invited to review an advance reader’s copy of a new novel scheduled for release later this year.  This isn’t the first time I’d been afforded this honor; one of my favorite perks that comes with being a newspaper...

This week my son Joshua ran across a news story that should be of interest to some of us here locally, despite the fact that it happened in another part of the country. The story had to do with a scientific study that reportedly...

(Editor’s Note: The following is an abridged version of an essay originally written and published back in 2012. It is being republished here in conjunction with this week’s celebration of International Star Wars Day on...

It is a sad fact of life that, all too often, we become so bogged down with the minutiae and infinitia of everyday life that we find ourselves accidentally forgetting the really important stuff. That almost happened to me this...

Just an observation, apropos of nothing in particular: There are some actors who, no matter how long their careers last or how hard they work to avoid the dreaded “typecasting” albatross, will forever be associated with the...