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Masking tape raised from the dead

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“You’ll never guess what I did!” my husband, Peter, announced.“You’re right. I won’t,” I responded.“I microwaved the masking tape!” he said.I can’t tell you...

Glimpses of America, 1957

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A couple of years ago, one of my sweet and gentle readers, Mary Crider, gave me a large stack of my favorite childhood magazine,...

The downfall of too much silence

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I’ve always felt I do my best work with a crowd behind me.For the first decade in my career, I covered sports. It seemed...

Drew Hastings publishes memoir

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Former Hillsboro Mayor Drew Hastings has self-published through Caleb Hill Press “Chasing Drew Hastings, A Memoir”, a collection of personal vignettes encompassing narratives of...

Inflation pandemic in 2022?

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The news that the United States experienced an inflation rate of 7 percent over the past year was eye-opening. Layered over with the pandemic...

You can never get enough broccoli

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“I bought more broccoli because I knew you were coming,” my mother informed me.You can never get enough broccoli, that is my belief.I am...

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One was in our kitchen and one was on the landing at the top of the stairs in my parents home when I was...

Help wanted on the homefront

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There are jobs posted, if only someone wants to do the work.Yet every week, they remain unfilled. The boss has to do it himself,...

Putin plans to upend U.S. leadership

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Simply put, Vladimir Putin’s plan is to reconstitute the former republics of the USSR that formed the buffer zone between the western democracies of...

‘You look like a car wash’

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I was excited to wear my new dress.It was slimming, I thought, all black and covered with flounces from the neckline to the hemline....