In some ways, value is culturally determined. The price of art is shaped by what someone is willing to pay based on its socially agreed upon worth.

Some are emphasizing that we should take precautions against infection with the coronavirus — stay home, keep businesses closed, observe social distancing, use personal protective equipment, etc.

Some of us have spouses, live-ins, children and grandchildren all trying to make the best of it every day with the ordinary life we once knew on hiatus.

The poet John Donne once wrote —“No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.”

Oscar Wilde wrote, in his book “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” that “Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.”

When classrooms are full again, thanks to a majority of Ashwaubenon voters, students will see changes thanks to two “yes” votes on referendum questions.

Tess Nowalk, my mother-in-law died last Saturday morning. She was a beautiful woman in all ways imaginable, who lived a life of quiet service to others.

Given the current situation of being sequestered, we are finding new ways to bring body and soul to the present moment.

Whirlwind doesn’t do justice to describe the debacle that happened earlier this week regarding holding the general election.

If the American workforce is approximately 100 million people, somewhere between 5 and 10 percent of them are now out of work.