Words matter, journalists are fond of saying.

Dear Dave, my husband and I aren’t seeing eye-to-eye on a motorcycle.

Your average pro football fan glued to a TV set on Sundays and Mondays (and sometimes Thursdays … and Saturdays after the college football regular season ends) might not be caught dead watching a fashion show, but rest assured — football and fashion are very closely linked.

Kelley Paul had gone to bed Tuesday night as usual, with her cellphone set on “Do Not Disturb,” except for family and close friends whose calls would always go through.

We may be down for the count, but don’t count us out until we don’t come up again!

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine returned from fighting wildfires down south and was not feeling well.

“What hath God wrought” is a phrase from the Book of Numbers (23:23).

Some of you may have noticed — heck, some of you may have been grateful — that I’ve been missing from my regular spot here the past couple weeks.

The question asked by one of our readers was, “How do I choose the best long-term in-home professional care and service for my dad?

Some days I want to destroy my smart phones and every other electronic device that whispers in my ear and commands my attention in an inexhaustible barrage of data, metadata and just plain fake stuff.