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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,...
Here’s A Little Serving Of Mashed History
by Mike KeelerThe Andes were not made for farming. It’s cold and rainy, and the soil is rocky and thin. But when the...
The Trinity Tree by Stuart Revercomb
"I will lift up my eyes to the mountains, from whence cometh my help . . ." Psalm 121:1
This is one of my...
“What Type of Parent Am I?”
by Keith McCurdyI heard a great quote the other day: “Having children may make you a parent, but it doesn’t make you good at...
Remembering Miss Ethel
by Mary Jo ShannonI believe that certain people come into our lives at particular times for particular reasons, of which neither they nor we...
Dilly Green Beans (or Okra!)
by Leigh SackettI spent my Friday and Saturday engrossed in the amazing world of Thomas Jefferson. Our plan was to head to Monticello...
Let’s Kill The Kudzu of Self Promotion
by Stephanie Koehler
One of the great things I have noticed – on a global scale -- in recent years is an authentic desire...