Chris Carosa

Why is it safer to finish in the middle of the pack than dead last – or even first? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Open House Tip for Elementary School Parents (Part II): How to Reduce the Odds Your Child

Does this story sound familiar? Could it have happened to you? What did you do when you found yourself in a similar situation? How did that work out for you? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Open House Tip for

What is it that is so hard to understand “the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”? And why as so many willing to have their right infringed by an organization so hard to hold acc

What is it about a steady summer rain that so soothes the soul? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “There’s Something Pleasantly Relaxing About a Steady Summer Rain” and see if it evokes memories deep within you.

Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a serious corporate meeting and this happens? Someone says something banal and you just want to blurt out some extemporaneous thought. Why might the chaos that would

What happens with you mix one of the nation’s largest fairs with the pure unadulterated energy of early rock and roll? The results were electrifying. How so? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “The Stormy Begin

How do you say “happy birthday” to a person who has had so much positive influence in your life?  Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “A Salute to My Greatest (and Most Favorite) Teacher” and you’ll be delighted wi

I took a walk down memory lane and what did I discover? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Was This Written 50 Years Too Early or 50 Years Too Late?” and trace the steps that led to the answer to a quest

From the Publisher’s Desk…
In the Spring of 2016, I walked next door from my office at The Sentinel to cover a story on the HF-L Unified Basketball end-of-the-year party which was being hosted by Deb & Tim S

You wanna know what’s wrong with America? Movies. Not just the movies, but the business model that drives Hollywood to think in terms of sequels for everything. Of course, there’s a very good reason for this. Wan

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It has been described as man’s greatest voyage since Columbus. It has been voted as mankind’s greatest achievement. For those who experienced it live as it happened, no words can capture the excitement, the thr

Communications is a two-way street. The responsibility for a successfully communication lies on both the sender and the receiver. What does this tell you about the state of society today? Read this week’s C

We’re about to start of month of 50th anniversaries. Before we dive head-long into it, would you like to read about a 60th anniversary celebration? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Party Like It’s 1959 – The B

What happens when people don’t remember the past? They don’t get a lot of really funny (and sometimes punny) jokes. Here’s a Commentary chock full of hidden allusions. Can you identify them all? Read this week’

You may remember the late Bart Starr from that Scholastic Book you read in elementary school. Or when you looked up exactly what a “dislocated sacroiliac” is and where it’s located. Some things you just never

It’s really not hard to go back in time. Going forward is another thing altogether. Here’s how to go back in time. If you had the chance to go back in time and meet anyone you could, who would it be? Read this wee

What’s the difference between a stick of dynamite and one megaton atomic bomb? And what does this have to do with your success? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “How to be Successful: The Explosive Truth

There comes a time in every father-son relationship with the reins are passed from one generation to the next. This is the tale of one such story. Did it end well? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Dad and the

Want to become an expert at something? Write a book about it. Who knows? You might even get asked to be a judge on the subject. That’s what happened recently to our intrepid writer. What surprised him most about t