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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,...
Nothing is Impossible
by Mary Jo ShannonOne of the most inspiring women I have ever met was Frances Landers, a housewife from El Dorado, Arkansas who...
Saved From Becoming Too Spiritual by Mark Graham
I had the blessing after Christmas of taking a fourth pilgrimage journey to Israel—the Holy Land, the Promised Land. I keep thinking that...
College Boys and K-Nines Create “Atmosphere”
by Jon KaufmanFriends, when last we spoke a congregation of teenaged hooligans were plundering my home, seizing any and all consumables they could...
Rack of Lamb with Warm Apple & Lentil Salad
by Leigh SackettNow that we are in the 3rd week of January to most Christmas is a distant memory but I mourn the...
No Need to Worry – Just Write It Down and You’ll Do Fine
by Mike KeelerOr so says the University of Chicago. They recently completed a study in which they asked college students to take a...
Our Dirty Little Secret
by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D.Do you own a new mobile phone? Perhaps you just replaced your old laptop or handheld device with an...