Cheryl Charles

We are now halfway through 2020. What started out as a sad political exercise in obfuscation and obstruction (known nostalgically

In case you missed it, another black man was shot and killed by police last week. This time, video evidence

When I was about 8½ months pregnant with my now college-aged daughter, I remember one day looking in the mirror,

The kitchen trash can in my house is filled up and has to be taken out to the barrels every

As we sit pondering this pandemic, we’re all looking for something to compare it to, something that has happened before

Way back in the 20th century, there was a movie called “I was a Teenage Frankenstein.” Coming only five months

By now we’ve all discovered who the real MVPs in our society are, have we not? If you’re parents with

I’ve been listening, for a couple of months at least, to Whitney Houston and Kygo’s cover of Steve Winwood’s “Higher

When I was growing up, way back before electricity, being selfish was one of the worst things you could be

The Good Lord willing, I will be spending Valentine’s Day weekend with two of my favorite people in the whole

Item staff writers, Cheryl Charles and Steve Krause, won awards for commentary in the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s

One must not speak ill of the dead. That missive has been drilled into most of us for so long,

I got out of bed this morning, although perhaps a bit more gingerly than I did in my younger days.

Most women of a certain age (and that would be any age) can chart their life cycles through their hair

This first column of the new year should be about resolutions, regrets or reminiscing. But I can’t, in good conscience,

For some families, the Thanksgiving holiday, with the extended family, is the holiday of the heebie-jeebies. They worry about debating

Despite some of my previous writings (rantings), I’m actually a fairly happy person. I don’t have any real financial woes