Fall will officially be here in a couple of days, but I think it was here this last week when we had the furnace running and one morning you could actually see the frost. Now we can say officially that Indian Summer is here. It is also the time you will see a Harvest Moon but did you know that ...

If you were like me the day of 9/11 brought back almost unbelievable images of what happened that day in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. If you are old enough you remember just what you were doing. For me it was Tuesday and I was getting ready for the ladies I do ceramics ...

I think many of you thought I left the country or was sick. I did have a busy week with sickness in the family and also some small trips that makes things get pretty mixed up around here. I did write an article, in fact, I wrote two but I couldn't find either one. The computer said they had ...

When the State Fair is over and school has started, to me, summer is near its end. The start of the school year is a time for getting used to a new teacher, new books, new clothes, or new kids in your class. It's a time for change. No more sleeping late. No more playing games after supper. No ...

This last year has convinced me that summer is truly here. Summertime living is supposed to be easy. The temperatures are in the 90's and I can't bear the thoughts of dreary household chores. Yet the house won't clean itself and somebody has to whip up a meal or two.When the corn starts to ...

Thinking about our recent celebration of Independence Day we must never take the great achievement of those who wrote the Declaration of Independence for granted. It is the vision of our forefathers who held a common view that any human person as noble, free and having inalienable rights. Men, ...

It hardly seems possible that the month of June is ending and that it will be July. It seemed the last few months just flew by and now we are actually having shorter days. There were so many things we were going to get done this summer and actually we have done very little that was in our ...

I hope your Father's Day was as nice as ours. We had to skip the picnic because of the weather, but I know a picnic at home is just as much fun as in the park. However, it can be hard to convince kids of that. To them, summer means picnics in the park among the many other things summer brings. ...

With Father's Day on the way I always have fond recollections of the fathers I have had in my life. Like all special days it has its own characteristics. This is the day Dad gets his favorite foods, a handkerchief, necktie or maybe golf balls, or fishing lures, or a bottle of after-shave and a ...

In spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love. The wedding invitations haven't been as many in the last few years, but there are a few that trickle in. Soon it will be the grandkids that will be taking the plunge, but like their parents they don't seem to want to hurry things. ...