Don’t be a Grinch: Stay prepared for holidays
I have friends who live for this time of the year. With bated peppermint-flavored breath, they eagerly await the day they can spark a...
Daredevil of Pumpkinvine Pike pioneered state auto industry
The date was July 4, 1894. The location was Pumpkinvine Pike three miles east of Kokomo. Elwood Haynes had hauled his newfangled carriage —...
Don’t face the apocalypse without facial revitalizer
Prior to beginning our home renovations, I had never been in my wife's bathroom. It wasn't that I didn't want to pay an occasional...
Letter: Greenwood not following its own land-use plans
To the editor:
In recent weeks there have been three front-page articles in the Daily Journal regarding the proposed sale of our...
Program helps meet veterans’ needs
Veteran to Veteran is two-part program operated by Our Hospice of South Central Indiana in its 15-county area, including Johnson County.
One...
Stumpery garden fuels excitement in opportunity to create
In the beginning ... of the stumpery.
I was cleaning out the corner back quadrant of our 5 acres when I saw...
Self-absorbed people bound to be polarized
The Wall Street Journal recently polled Republicans and Democratic voters on their ideological identifications. In 1990, the newspaper commissioned a more or less identical...
From death to the joy of life and a burgundy recliner
We have had a strange run with a funeral nearly every week since late September, a sad and mournful toll of accidents, age and...
Anonymity is costly to society
Recently I wrote a column on Indiana’s job growth during the past 20 years. In return, I was blessed with the following anonymous email:
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Letter: Bring grocery story to Whiteland area
To the editor:
I'm writing about the article that was in the Daily Journal Oct. 22, "Medical offices proposed in Whiteland." Fine...