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MELINDA MYERS: Be A Weather Watching Gardener
Each gardening season seems to offer new growing challenges. Our gardens are exposed to more drastic and variable weather with changing weather patterns. Floods, droughts, wind, temperature extremes, and...
BOB BROWN: Suspension of Critical Judgment
The Sheriff of a nearby county, before DNA identification was available, urgently requested the assistance...
SCOTT DREYER: A Trump Supporter Explains Her Reasonings
Below are comments from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous, for employment reasons, on...
DAWN CUSTALOW: “It’s Not Complicated – Just Love The One In Front of You . . .”
As a nation, we have been in shock and disbelief as we grieve the recent...
SCOTT DREYER: 2024 In Review, “The Year The Fever Broke” (Part 2)
Part 1, for January-July, is here.AUGUSTDemocrats had their convention in Chicago. They took the grotesque,...
Recipe of the Week: Memorial Day American Flag Cake
by Leigh SackettI have discovered recently that being ignorant to my nation’s history is like being given a wonderful birthday present and not caring...
Still Searching . . . But Keeping My Sense of Humor
by Jon KaufmanIt is day sixty-four of unemployment and friends; I am still desperate and jobless. Like many Americans, I am experiencing the...
“Oh, That Is Just The Way Kids Are!”
by Keith McCurdyHow many times have you heard a statement like, “that is just the way kids are” or “teenagers are just like...
Not Sure? Just Look It Up!
by Mary Jo Shannon“I know what a raccoon is! I don’t need to look it up in the dictionary!” my son Harry shouted,...
A Final Epitaph For Our Dear Rock
by Lucky GarvinOur nine-year-old Dobermann, Rock, lay on the screen porch one afternoon two weeks ago. A car came up the driveway, and...
A Man Went Up A Mountain to Pick Up the Trash
by Mike KeelerHe had become concerned by the amount of junk which visitors had left behind. The mountain was becoming more famous for...