The usual way of thinking about this is that the students are inspired by a good or great teacher. One rarely thinks of it being the other way around but this is a story about a very unusual art class. Most of the students are older than the appointed teacher, me. Many in my class [...]
We attended the wedding on Thursday of Matthew and Leanna. Daughter Elizabeth and her friend Timothy were witnesses at the wedding. Matthew is a brother to Timothy. The bride chose the color navy that the two girl witnesses and herself wore along with a white cape and apron. In this community the bride gets married [...]
It was one of those blissful spring evenings when everything works out just right. Walking head-on to each other were two couples: Randy and Katie holding hands and moving east, and Dewey and Emily walking closely without actually touching, moving west. All four were smiling. There’s a magic about a spring evening to a couple [...]
I get up early in the morning. It takes time to do my chores at home before I head off to my “day job” at the hospital. Besides, I get a little jump on the day while lots of other people are still snoozing. One of the benefits I receive in exchange for giving up [...]
By Lovina Eicher For The Madison Press The sun is shining and the temperature is over 60 degrees this morning. It looks like it will be another gorgeous day and spring only officially begins tomorrow (March 20). All signs of spring are here, first among them: the rhubarb is peeping through and winter onions [...]
It’s “officially” spring, and it certainly looks the part this year. There’s nothing timid about the abundant daffodils, full-blown flowering apple and Japanese magnolia trees and lush forsythia bushes. The grass in our yard has that emerald green, slightly “lumpy” look of new spring grass, not yet tamed by a lawn mower. Bunches of violets [...]
Let me tell you something about sheets and pillowcases that have been hung on the line to dry. If you have never climbed into a bed with fresh crispy clean sheets or laid your head on a pillowcase that has been kissed by the sun and hugged by the wind, you are indeed missing out [...]
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 [...]
