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The days of summer have passed all too quickly, as they always do, and the days of new backpacks, empty notebooks and sharp pencils are upon us. Students wonder who will be in their …
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Kathy Werner
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9/5/25
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It was one of those things we’d been planning to do for ages. “We need to get together,” we’d say in our birthday text messages. “We should plan something,” …
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Jeanne Sager
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9/2/25
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My granddaughter Adeline, sister Laurie, and I walked through the Fenimore Farm and Country Village in Cooperstown (formerly known as The Farmers Museum) as the sun blazed overhead. We took a ride on …
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Kathy Werner
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8/29/25
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You’ve spent the entire day at a friend’s home, and it’s time to leave. You look around and realize that various members of your family have discarded the following items in various …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/26/25
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My granddaughter Adeline and I arrived safe and sound at the historic Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown. The Otesaga Hotel was built in 1909 by Stephen Carlton Clark and his brother Edward Severin …
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Kathy Werner
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8/22/25
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How do you get a squatter out of your backyard?
If that particular squatter is listed on the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest companies, you have a few options.
You …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/19/25
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My granddaughter Adeline and I have just returned from a mini-vacation in mid-upper-upstate NY, and it was delightful. Our ultimate destination was Cooperstown and the beautiful Otesaga Hotel, …
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Kathy Werner
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8/15/25
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T.S. Eliot may have once convinced the world that April was the cruelest month, but these days I’m inclined to disagree.
August takes all the hope of early summer and manages to …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/12/25
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The last few days have been very hazy as smoke from Canadian wildfires drift in our direction. Makes you realize that Mother Nature doesn’t care about the borders that man has created; …
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Kathy Werner
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8/8/25
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How many times over the years have you seen an out-of-towner with a cellphone in one hand and a puzzled look on their face?
Did you watch them turn the device off and power it back up again in …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/5/25
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I often joke that my mobile phone is my other brain, but that is truer than I would care to admit.
Yesterday I lost my iPhone. I volunteer at a thrift store sorting, cleaning, and …
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Kathy Werner
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8/1/25
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You’ll have to pardon our failure to maintain our lawn this summer.
Blame the squatters in my backyard who are refusing to leave.
Spectrum and Verizon have been squatting in my …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/29/25
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How did I spend this beautiful summer day, you ask? In very productive ways, I reply.
I took my car to the garage for its 90,000-mile checkup. I picked up some yogurt at the store. …
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Kathy Werner
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7/25/25
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“I’m sorry we’re late,” I said. “We had to stop and tell a farmer one of his cows got out.”
It’s not the first time I’ve had to make this apology. …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/22/25
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I recently made a trip to Costco, a place where you can buy a lifetime supply of nearly anything your heart desires. Costco is a huge warehouse stuffed with consumer goods, food, and other …
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Kathy Werner
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7/18/25
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I’d only just entered the maze of a farmers’ market in one of NYS’s larger cities when I spotted them – bunches of bright yellow bananas piled on a table, waiting for …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/15/25
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I find it difficult to watch the news these days. I am seeing things in this country that I find hard to fathom. I thought that we could stand strong against the threat of fascism. I …
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Kathy Werner
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7/11/25
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The whirring of the chainsaw as it sliced through the center post made one thing clear: There was no turning back.
The wooden beam crashing to the ground, swings and monkey bars clanking …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/8/25
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I am so grateful to have the time in my dotage to spend hours looking up family history in old newspapers. Having grown up in Sullivan County in a family that lived for generations in these hills, I …
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Kathy Werner
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7/4/25
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Year after year, there’s always a mom who captures my eye at graduation.
She’s beaming, her smile so wide the pride seems to radiate from her, like sunlight spilling through …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/1/25
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Some of my fondest memories of Delaware Valley Central School are of the musicals that we put on under the direction of music teacher extraordinaire Willard Slausenberg. I just loved those …
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Kathy Werner
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6/27/25
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It was the wee hours of a frosty morning, and I was wandering with no particular direction in mind, taking one back road after another, letting the roads lead my adventure.
My task for …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/24/25
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For most grown-ups, memories of their senior year of high school are few and far between. Perhaps they recall who came out to cheer them on at graduation or maybe faint memories remain of a class …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/17/25
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Our last evening in London was spent – where else? – at the theater, or “theatre”, as the Brits would spell it. The Ambassador Theatre to be precise, and my friend …
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Kathy Werner
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6/13/25
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Hometowns are complicated places.
This place where you learned to walk and talk and to ride a bike, where you had your first kiss and your first heartbreak, may be a place you never leave …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/10/25
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