Time, effort often best gift to help those in need
“Into each life some rain must fall,” said Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. We all know someone whose “some rain” looks more like a monsoon than...
Liquid history
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series by columnist Doug Skinner about the process of making bourbon barrels and bourbon.
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Evolving words explain a ‘curiouser’ world
It is said that the one constant in the world is change. But is it just me or do many of the changes lately,...
Democracy about more than president
<p>It’s so easy in a presidential election year to forget that our system is not about a single person. This year especially, when the...
Democracy about more than president
It’s so easy in a presidential election year to forget that our system is not about a single person. This year especially, when the...
Hosting hosta tour draws topics worth pondering
If you’re reading this Saturday morning, I’ve had my hot tea and am taking a last walk through the yard to make sure none...
Don’t trust modern technology
As I mentioned in my last column, I don’t think Baby Boomers will ever feel comfortable with technology. It’s not that we can’t master...
Ignore voices of
Before the ink dried on last week’s column, surrogates from unKoch My Campus and Greenpeace rushed into deep victimization mode.
Here at...
Trump: World Isn’t laughing
Apparently, many Americans are amused by the thought of Donald Trump living in the White House. Perhaps they think if Trump is this outrageous...
Grandkids’ questions keep rolling mile after mile
If you overlook the 6-year-old demonstrating her best soccer kick, whereupon her shoe flew off her foot and grazed the side of my head,...