Friday, February 27, 2026
notebook and pen

Awake each morning with gratitude for all possibilities, and take a moment to let your heart be happy for it.
apple on a desk

Judith Sutherland recalls the year she made a friend who had many freedoms, the envy she felt and her eventual appreciation for her parents and their rules.
Santa

The magic of Christmas is a gift for the child in all of us. Judith Sutherland recalls a Christmas when she discovered one of Santa's secrets.
rotary telephone

Looking through the ads in a Jeromesville Senior High School yearbook dated 1950, Judith Sutherland recalls a version of her town in the past.
farm sunset

Things always change. And that is one truth we each carry with us, no matter our station in this life," Judith Sutherland writes in her column this week.
snowy farmland

Judith Sutherland believes, more than ever, "live and let live" has become a necessary mantra.
beets

Being grounded to the earth, whether through the planting of a small garden or hundreds of acres of crops, is often seated in where we were born.
baby

Despite a lifetime of medical struggles, Judith Sutherland's son Cort welcomes his second child, a 7-pound baby girl.
lantern

Judith Sutherland recalls visiting Miss Margaret Stover, who had chosen to remain in the century to which she had been born.
child's hand

Judith Sutherland revels in time spent with her granddaughter.