We’re well into February — even at 29 days in this leap year of 2012, it’s the shortest month of the year. It only seems like the longest. The excitement of the holidays — Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s — is behind us. New Year’s resolutions that carried us through January are starting to feel [...]
The Ohio Music Educators Association Solo and Ensemble Adjudication (say that three times fast) for high school students was held at Pickerington North High School a week ago. My grandchildren, Kelsey and Susanna, have “gone to contest” for several years. It has become a family affair, with school band director, music teacher, parents, siblings and [...]
Everyone on the face of the earth has a story. Paula Deen’s is a rip-roaring, die-hard, Southern fried tale of a little girl who married at 18 and had two sons. Left with her boys and $200 when her young husband bailed out of the marriage, Paula basically did what she could to survive and [...]
Here we are in the throes of another Ohio winter. We’ve escaped the worst of the bitter cold, ice and snow so far. According to the “Old Farmer’s Almanac,” the rest of winter should continue just about the same way. We’ve dodged the worst of the cold weather by the end of January, but it [...]
What a strange winter this has been so far. It’s been a real roller coaster. One day last week the temperature plunged from a high of 57 degrees to 21 degrees in eight hours, as a cold front came through central Ohio on its way east. Gray clouds raced across the sky from west to [...]
When I go grocery shopping, unless I’m just running in for a can of something, I nearly always visit the produce section. I buy most of the produce we use at home a little at a time to be sure it is as fresh as possible when we eat it. We’re lucky to live close [...]
Whatever time you have on this earth is all yours. You will be remembered for the way you live and what you do with that time. Although not everyone is a Mother Teresa, Dr. Tom Dooley or Jane Goodall, we all have our hopes, dreams and goals. The latest term for the things we all [...]
“What are you doing New Year’s — New Year’s Eve?” Most of us want a place to go and people to see and talk to on New Year’s Eve. Parties are and always have been popular on New Year’s. It’s fun to see the “old man” on his way and welcome in the brand new [...]
