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By JONATHAN KAHANE

For 238 years, the Gazette has been informing Pioneer Valley residents of the news of the day, and while doing so has provided the medium for readers to share their earth-shattering (and not so earth-shattering) opinions concerning the pressing affairs affecting them. For years now during the modern (and not so modern) era, I have enjoyed participating in this exercise.

By JONATHAN KAHANE

By JONATHAN KAHANE

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I voted for Kamala Harris in the recent presidential election, and I’m very “disappointed” in the result. I chose that word carefully because it, and not the outcome of the vote per se, is the focus of this essay.From the moment this campaign began...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I don’t watch much television, mainly the news/weather broadcasts and a baseball game now and then if the Sox are on. Unfortunately it has become too painful to watch them recently, so instead I root against those Boys from The Bronx. Regrettably, my...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 A couple of weeks ago an alternative universe must have been created, and by some combination of supernatural forces I met up with my two college roommates at a nondescript diner somewhere in rural (very rural) Maine. We hadn’t seen each other in...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I really tried this time. I gave it everything I had. I even trained for months before it began — before the flame was lit.I did my utmost to watch the Olympics on TV this year. If I watch just one more point of beach volleyball, I will go stark...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I don’t like braggarts. I seem to find myself in their company more and more these days. It makes me feel quite uncomfortable, whether I’m in their midst or simply reading about them in a book or journal, or even listening to them drone on during...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I admit at the outset that I have a lot of nerve to write an essay complaining about how people are using the English language these days. My teacher in high school used to put comments in the margins of my papers like “primer prose,” “dangling...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

A couple of months ago my son recommended a book to me. You’d think I’d have learned by now to treat any advice he proffers with extreme caution. Against my better judgment, I reasoned, he’s 37 years old now, married, raising a family, and an...