Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I have been very remiss of late and failed to mention the August birthdays of the following seniors, many of whom are…
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I met Elaine at her home on Gschwend Road a couple of miles back beyond the Christine Woods region. I was greeted by the 14-year old Chocolate Lab, Pepper, and 7-year old McNab Mix, Ziggy,…
The heat of last week seemed like a good reason to stay inside and sort through junk. Amongst the piles of stuff, most of which ended up in the dumpster, I found a treasure, a…
The drive from Ithaca, New York, at the southern end of Lake Cayuga to the old-and-new money town of Skaneateles at the northern end of Skaneateles Lakes takes a little less than an hour, but…
If I be not in a state of Grace, I pray God place me in it; If I be in it, I pray God keep me so. — Jean D’Arc Various accounts of the life…
For weather fans, this summer the globe over seems to be one to remember. I'm never quite sure, though, reading about monsoon floods in Iowa or Asia whether the catastrophes are that far out of…
I have been at a loss as to how to go from a post about death to justabout anything else. Suffice to say my dear friend is no longer using her hospital bed. She went…
California is in the slo-mo process of merging wine and marijuana into two branches of the same Intoxication industry. The merger is still in its early stages, but the outlines of it are starting to…
Wednesday night’s Community Services District meeting at the Boonville Firehouse was uncharacteristically testy, and grew testier as the evening wore on as trustees traded verbal jabs with each other and aimed a couple of body…