Masking tape raised from the dead
“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
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
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
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?
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
“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...
Help wanted on the homefront
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
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’
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....