On My Mind

Winter’s discontent leads to disaster

Thursday, February 8, 2007 by Janie Jenkins

This is not the column I intended to write today. This column should be titled, For Women Only. There are so many “to dos” on my list of columns to write, but an abrupt change in my life has put them on hold for another time.

The weather is strange, but don’t complain

Thursday, January 25, 2007 by Janie Jenkins

It just doesn’t seem possible that so much water could fall from the sky, day after day after day. But it does.

When it rains, it pours: N’ahli R.I.P.

Thursday, January 11, 2007 by Janie Jenkins

(Editor’s note: In the Jan. 4 column, Boardman Police Officer Kim Kotheimer was incorrectly referred to as “Jim” in one sentence.

Christmas miracle inspires a letter

Thursday, January 4, 2007 by Janie Jenkins

Last Sept. 15, Kade Kotheimer, the son of Boardman Township’s finest, Police Officer Jim Kotheimer, was injured in an accident so horrendous that he was not expected to live and lay in a coma for weeks.

Bells ring in life’s fondest memories

Thursday, December 21, 2006 by Janie Jenkins

This is the time of year when I like to share with you one of my mother’s columns from when she wrote for Farm and Dairy from the 1950s until her death in 1965.

Touchstone’s Orion, rest in peace

Thursday, December 7, 2006 by Janie Jenkins

(Editor’s note: Generally, Janie Jenkins’ column runs every other week and this would be her ‘off week.

Approaching the winter of Ori’s life

Thursday, November 30, 2006 by Janie Jenkins

How do we know when it is time? For weeks, I’ve ached when Ori winces as he eases himself down on his bed.

Pastoral musings on a spinning theme

Thursday, November 16, 2006 by Janie Jenkins

It very well could have been a dream. It is one of those rare bluebird days of late October with splintered sunshine and cobalt blue skies and colored leaves dancing in the wind.