A long time ago, when I was unemployed and sitting on a cold bench in Washington Square Park, I overheard a conversation between two men. Obviously acquaintances, they spoke loud enough for others to ...

The featured letter to the editor Sunday mentioning Leonard Whitegon brought me a chuckle. He was the principal at Park View Elementary school back in 1960. My 6th grade teacher (Mrs. Hollingsworth) ...

I wish this incredibly sad and lingering disease didn’t exist. But the reality is sobering: About 10% of Americans aged 65 and older have dementia, while an additional 22% have mild cognitive ...

I was one of those faces in the Sunday Gazette’s photo of fans at the Beatles concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater on Aug 26, 1964. It was the most exciting day in my life at the time. I was 15, and my ...

Editor: Donnie Collins’ recent article on peace, patience and the meaning of the holiday season was thoughtful (Dec. 24). Its inclusion of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish voices reflected the best of ...

In late March of 1986, my then-wife and I, in Sylva, were witnesses to a massive triangular craft silently moving over us at night, barely 200 feet overhead. It had three red lights, one at each tip, ...

The model of memory recall in which a consolidated memory becomes labile when recalled and may then be reconsolidated in an altered form helps explain the success that hypnotherapy and neurolinguistic ...

Editor: On Jan. 4, the Rev. Connell McHugh, a priest of the Diocese of Scranton and a Hazleton native, entered into eternal rest. Father McHugh was well known for sharing his expertise about the ...

Could memory not in fact be part of the immune system? While the “standard” immune system deals with internal dangers, a memory “immune system” would deal with external threats. An example would be ...