Paul Sassone

Paul Sassone is a long-time columnist for Pioneer Press and a winner of a first-place award for opinion column writing from the Local Media Association. …

• Turning an optimistic eye toward 2013 ...

  Fiscal cliffs. Mass murder. War. Unemployment. End-of-the-world scares. Glad to see the last of 2012. But will 2013 be any better? We approach the new year warily. After all, it has the number 13 in it.

• Evidence of Santa is hard to refute — for kids

  I’ve known the truth about Santa Claus for years. I reasoned it out when I was a kid. My brother Mike and I thought it was strange that no matter how hard we tried, no matter how many times we punched each other on the …Read More

• Christmases past can live only as memories

  Once you’ve grown up, you spend some time at Christmas looking back, remembering with tender fondness what Christmas was like, how Christmas felt when you were a child. Home, and all that word embraces, becomes an almost tangible presence during these mental journeys into the …Read More