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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 from the Happy Chef: “Best Burger Ever” and “Mighty Darn Good Oven Fries”

The Food Network has been very enticing this week. With the month of June here they have been focusing on outdoor grilling. Rachael...

GPS Devices: Who is Really in Charge?

Something is happening with the techno-gadgets in our lives.  Is it that art imitates life or the other way around, but the Terminator...

Preacher’s Corner: Remember WHOSE You Are!

I put the finishing touches to this Preacher’s Corner on Memorial Day…a day set aside for our nation’s peoples to remember, reflect on and...

Recipe from the Happy Chef: Four-Cheese Vegetable Lasagna

A good friend of mine has been an awesome inspiration by becoming wonderfully healthy. She is so diligent about exercise and for the...

Yiddish, Yarns and Yams, Oh My

This week, I am making a pilgrimage to the land of my ancestors, southeastern Florida.  For generations Jewish New Yorkers have migrated towards...

Adopt a Cat … in June

June is the American Humane Association’s Adopt-A-Cat Month, chosen because each year thousands of kittens are born in spring and summer. Many end up...