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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,...

The Red Shirt of Courage

by Jon KaufmanAll over this great land of ours college baseball teams of all levels are battling their opponents for the supremacy of...

Oh, For The Sake Of A Little Self-Esteem

by Keith McCurdyHave you ever done an internet search on self-esteem?  I just did and wow, I think satellites are still linking up...

How Good Words Go Bad

by Mike KeelerStart with a perfectly good word.  Take, for example, "cacher," which comes from the Latin "coactare - to constrain" and which...

Grilled Meats and Vegetables Over Saffron Orzo

by Leigh SackettI get overzealous about a lot of things! But one thing at the top of my overzealous list is … SPRING!!! As...

The Sound of One Hand Typing

by Fred FirstI’ve been around the writer’s block a time or two. Pretty much every early morning for some years now, I’ve plopped...

Smartphones and Being Smart

by Stephanie KoehlerI recently had a series of hardware malfunctions that left me intermittently without my smartphone for several weeks.  While I frequently...