Columns
Winter care for summer bulbs
Our readers repeatedly ask for information on how to care for their summer bulbs.For information on dahlias, cannas and gladioli’s, you don̵...
Ways of remembering
One day last week as I left the house to take my usual morning walk, I realized I had not written down the time I left the house. I write down the tim...
A part of innocence lost
Exactly when I became hooked I am not sure. But the first real taste I can remember came while riding in a car with my parents pulling a Columbus and ...
My wife and I had the pleasure of attending the concert by Glenn Bowles (formerly of the Van-Dells) at the Hillsboro Church of Christ last Friday nigh...
A great tree you’ve never heard of
A century ago, the streets and parklands of America were lined with stately Elm trees. Elms are loved for their graceful shape, with branches like spr...
Alice really doesn’t live here any more
Here is a real conversation that took place with a representative of a real company. The dialogue, such as it was, occurred between me and a real pers...
Staying silent doesn’t work
I heard about National Suicide Prevention Week for the first time almost exactly four years ago this week. I was barely two weeks into my first semest...
The making of a military family
I have always had the greatest respect for the men and women who currently serve, or have served, our country in the military.In November 2005, Ray So...
Preplanning a funeral
I never thought I would write anything pertaining to preplanning a funeral, but since my husband and I recently did that very thing, I thought I would...
Fall is the best time to landscape
Humans have a natural urge to plant in the spring, and spring is the best time to sow garden seeds and plant annual bedding plants. Since time began, ...
