Sunday, May 5, 2024

I have long enjoyed reading the anniversary notices in the county paper. It is these little nuggets of society news that tell us that Lula and Orville have enjoyed 75 years of wedded bliss (having wed, apparently, at or around age nine).

How to Eat a Poem Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.

Spring is in the air! Isn't springtime in northeast Ohio a wonderful time? Gone (hopefully) are the howling winter winds and we all are crossing our fingers for a warm, dry spring.

The signs and sounds of another Illinois spring are everywhere and each one sends me daydreaming to another time, another place.

When I was a very young kid, I went to the Loudonville Free Street Fair with some of my friends. At home that night, I said to my father, "I saw your uncle at the fair!" Real cowboy.

"It's time to get political." That's a headline message on the Web site of The Humane Society of the United States.

If there is a whopping blizzard on the Thursday this article appears, it is all my fault, because this Thursday (March 22) I unplugged the heat tape in the barn.

Can this relationship be saved? When it comes to cleaning, my 9-year-old son thinks a horizontal surface is a space onto which he can drop trading cards, old homework, various action figures, and tiny plastic parts barely visible to the naked eye belonging to erector sets he does not even remember owning.

Perhaps more of us than ever before are aware of the importance of what we eat, while at the same time, more temptations that aren't so good for us surround us and sway us to indulge in the wrong foods.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.