Some thanks, apologies and an update

After two weeks in the hospital, I’m finally on the mend By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times A funny thing happened on the way home from the Octorara-Unionville High School Football game on the night before Halloween: I got really, really sick. So sick, I ended up in a local emergency room with what ultimately turned out to be a massive gastrointestinal infection. As that institution declined...

Equal time: a male response to Kelly

Editor’s Note: In the interests of equal time, fairness and well, just because it’s so darn fun, we celebrate this Valentine’s Day by offering space for a rebuttal of our popular Sunday columnist, Kelly Hockenberry by her husband, Joe. By Joe Hockenberry, Special to The Times I walked into my Monday morning hoops game this past week and was greeted with the following:  “Man,...

Illness shows the difference between the sexes

Women tough it out and get it done, men become attached to the sofa By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times Hi. Being sick sucks.  I hate to be crass, but there is no other way to describe it. I am going on my fifth day of feeling like dog dirt.  FIVE DAYS.  Unacceptable. However, in the lives of my family, nothing much has changed.  (BRACE YOURSELF, male readers) The beds are made.  Dishes...