John Hook

every day we learn more about COVID-19 and are inundated with figures, speculations, proclamations and prohibitions. How are we supposed to make sense of all this? How are we to determine what is fact and what is fiction? What will keep us healthy and what could make us sick? Who should we listen to

Eleven years ago when we purchased the RV, PennDOT did not record a lien on it. Consequently when it was recently paid off and we expected the title in the mail – which should have been mailed the next business day according to PennDOT — they did not send us one, meaning we couldn’t finalize…

Almost exactly 11 years ago the call of the open road became so loud in our house that the only way to quiet it was to purchase an RV. So we did: a 36’ Class A with a queen bedroom in the rear and two bunkbeds for the kids near the middle, opposite the bathroom.…

  While reflecting on this pandemic last week I found myself hoping that when this is over the local warehouse club announces they are extending my membership since they’ve been out of stock so much. And that the U.S. Department of State extends the expiration of my mostly useless passport. Although I’m guessing probably…

Forced isolation has caused our use of video chat tools to increase exponentially, which means we now have to think about how we present ourselves on camera.

I am now the happy parent of a Transfer Portal user. I watched our son walk into the dark abyss of the Portal only to find out that there is light at the other end. That’s right, I can confirm from first-hand knowledge that the Portal is OK. Although it’s not perfect, it is a…

It was my good fortune that after our move back to Happy Valley in 2005 and a while of running by myself, our next-door neighbor, John Graham, approached me about going out and running together. And so it began. A three-times-a-week routine that went on for months, then years, then a decade.