You never know where your words will go. Recent columns about “being civil” made their way to Indiana, where the daily Times of Northwest Indiana has initiated a Community Civility Counts campaign in partnership with […]
Craig city councilman John Ponikvar emailed me last week to let me know I’m not alone in my quest for greater civility in the public arena. Ponikvar has introduced “the Rules of Civility” to Club […]
The squirrels are back. We had to replace the battery in my car this week and discovered another stash of almond shells. My husband took his truck in for an oil change and there were […]
Someone in my household changed the toilet paper roll this week. Despite the fact he or she put the roll on upside down—whoever did it, thank you. (And if it ever happens again, the end […]
There’s an Old Testament Bible story about Joshua meeting up with the Angel of the Lord before a battle. Joshua asked the angel whose side he was on and the angel cryptically replied, “Neither.” That […]
The election of 2016, with all its flaming rhetoric, is behind us. We have elected the 45th president of the United States of America. May he be given all the wisdom, compassion and grace he […]
I have a confession to make: My 2016 ballot is still sitting unopened on my kitchen table. This is the first time in my 20-plus years as a voter I’ve struggled so much with my […]
We’ve got a squirrel (or two) living in the willow tree in our yard. Our upstairs window gives me a bird’s-eye view of squirrel world. Last week I watched Mr. or Mrs. Squirrel stuffing mouthfuls […]
The word for the week is collaboration, which has come up in multiple (otherwise unrelated) conversations and meetings. What is collaboration? It’s what the county’s IT department accomplished in 2014 when they successfully negotiated the […]
This week is National Newspaper Week, highlighting the value and importance of local newspapers as repositories and dispensaries of information. It’s been a month since I’ve stepped into this role as editor and publisher and […]
I’m writing this while watching the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Social media today was full of suggested drinking games for adult viewers to help them endure the ongoing insanity of […]
Last weekend my husband and I and moved into an antique house in Meeker. I’ve always wanted to live in an old house, and this one qualifies. It was built in 1912, and I’m itching […]
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