内容摘要：Craig Waterman is a suburban dad in middle age who favors extremely puffy jackets, yearns to see the new Marvel movie and is so uncool that he lobbies his town to have speed bumps installed. Naturally, he has no friends.

Craig Waterman is a suburban dad in middle age who favors extremely puffy jackets, yearns to see the new Marvel movie and is so uncool that he lobbies his town to have speed bumps installed. Naturally, he has no friends.

Global warming skeptics often assert that some of the people Weisman calls visionaries are misguided nature enthusiasts, but what could we lose in making the planet cleaner and greener?Nothing, and our children and grandchildren will be grateful.

MIAMI (AP) — A weather system swirling off the coast of western Mexico has developed into the first tropical storm of the eastern North Pacific hurricane season, forecasters said Thursday.Tropical Storm Alvin was located about 565 miles (910 kilometers) south-southeast of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.Maximum sustained winds were clocked at 60 mph (95 kph). It was moving northwest at 12 mph (19 kph). There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect Thursday afternoon, the hurricane center said.

Alvin was expected to strengthen through early Friday, then weaken late Friday. The eastern North Pacific hurricane season runs May 15 to Nov. 30.The Atlantic hurricane season begins Sunday and also stretches through the end of November, and forecasters are expecting yet

. But they don’t think it will be as chaotic as 2024, the third-costliest season on record as it spawned killer storms

NEW YORK (AP) — Tax season is underway, and the IRS expects 140 million people will file returns by April 15. The agency has also debuted aNEW YORK (AP) — It’s been eight months since I closed the door for the last time to my childhood home in suburban New Jersey and said goodbye to more than a half century of memories.

I sometimes still struggle to let it go.Mom passed away in February 2023 after a brief battle with cancer. My sister and I didn’t want to sell the family house right away, but we soon realized we couldn’t maintain it in the fastidious manner Mom had since she and Dad purchased it back in 1962. But more importantly, without Mom, our home had become just a house.

Losing Mom, my best friend, was hard enough. Dismantling my childhood home only magnified her loss — and made me ponder my own legacy. Mom’s house had been the center of gatherings for relatives and friends who enjoyed her Italian cooking of manicottis, chicken cutlets and baked goods and then convened around her restored 1936 baby grand piano singing showtunes — sometimes off key.So how do you clear out a childhood home to prep for a sale while honoring Mom’s passion for all things cultural and love of family?