Columns
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, Sports Illustrated, m...
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 like my finest stories ...
Drew Hastings publishes memoir
Former Hillsboro Mayor Drew Hastings has self-published through Caleb Hill Press “Chasing Drew Hastings, A Memoir”, a collection of person...
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 effects ...
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 l...
One was in our kitchen and one was on the landing at the top of the stairs in my parents home when I was growing up. They were stationed on the wall a...
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, or his boss has to do...
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 democracie...
‘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. I wore it with hi...
Looking back, looking forward
Several times this past weekend we heard people discussing everything they hated about 2021 and what hopeful things they are anticipating about 2022.I...
