330 articles
November 18, 2025
There is something special about a local weekly newspaper. It’s news about your friends and neighbors. It alerts you to upcoming events…that actually pertain to you. It will give you every single detail on how Homer Cunningham got his 1955 Dodge pickup entangled with a telephone pole alongside that sharp curve out on the Shiloh Road.
November 11, 2025
One thing you must remember is that ANXIETY AND WORRY feed off each other. More anxiety produces more worry. More worry produces more anxiety.
November 11, 2025
If you want a lesson in survival, talk to an entertainer (or public figure).
November 11, 2025
We pause every year in November to recognize the veterans who have stood in the gap for us. From those brave soldiers who won our freedom at Lexington Green, Bunker Hill, Trenton, and Yorktown, to those who defended it, and us, at San Juan Hill, in the Argonne Forest, at Omaha Beach, in the freezing cold of Korea’s Chosin Reservoir, the jungles of Vietnam, and the blazing heat in the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq.
November 11, 2025
For the first time in an entire year, I feel hopeful.
November 4, 2025
This weekend, I talked to someone at the grocery store who looks and sounds different from me that has been targeted recently for being different. It broke my heart because if I had to make a list of the best people I know in this world, that person would be near the top.
November 4, 2025
I don’t have any idea who invented Daylight Savings Time, but I can guarantee you, whoever it was never had to milk a cow in the dark.
November 4, 2025
How does your definition of love evolve as you age? Has your definition of love changed in 50 years?
October 28, 2025
For many, Halloween signals the start of the holiday season. For the next two months, the theme of the holidays is to celebrate family, worship, feast, honor the past, be grateful, think of others, and give back, among other things. There are many traditions and observances that take place between now and January 1, but the theme that runs through all of it is connection.
October 28, 2025
It's all about the breath.
October 28, 2025
It was all about the candy at first. No one is too young to eat Tootsie Rolls or a Bit-O-Honey bar.
October 21, 2025
This is not “A Tale of Two Cities.” But the books’ iconic opening line does sum up my sophomore year in high school, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
October 21, 2025
Don't listen to your anxiety—IT'S A LIAR!
October 14, 2025
During supper the next week, Daddy seemed quieter than usual. As we all finished and pushed back from the table, he said, “David, I’ve got some bad news.”
October 14, 2025
I recently read an article that flat out stated we may not understand Daisy, Rover, or Fido like we ought to.
October 7, 2025
King was a half-shepherd, half-collie mix I’d raised from a pup.
October 7, 2025
I have no idea what bonded us together. I know it was for real, and forever.
September 30, 2025
I went back home for my 60-year high school reunion. And I don’t know exactly how to gently, or politely, say this… But...uh…er...uh...I found myself completely surrounded by old people the entire weekend.
September 30, 2025
Just like the ocean tides, our lives have an ebb and flow, ups and downs.
September 23, 2025
GLEASON — More than three dozen Gleason High School graduates gathered here over the Labor Day weekend for the Tater Town Special with many not accepting the notion of an American novelist and rock band that “you can’t go home again.”
