“Sometimes when you’re here, you’re not really here,” is a common complaint from today’s children. Children from all levels of the economic spectrum seem to say this to their parents once in a while. It should strike a chord for every parent or grandparent.
Tag: Loose Ends
Loose Ends: A market-ing success
How do you measure the success of a new community project? By talking to the locals who actively participate or by taking count of the number of people who take advantage of the program’s offerings?
Looking Back: Threshing days of old
Many people are so used to seeing newly baled hay out in the fields, that they can’t imagine the White River Valley any differently.
Loose Ends: Remembering Hester-Jane
RBC | It wasn’t until I saw Hester-Jane Cogswell’s life in the pictures spread out on the dining room table in her Fawn Creek ranch house Saturday that the loss hit me.
Loose Ends: If you lived here, I’d know of you
Part of the appeal of small-town living is that most everyone knows your name. The old “Cheers” episodes featuring a big city bar, where all the regulars know each other’s names, are very popular because of that up-close-and personal feeling. Those who don’t experience it every day miss it, even[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Idle chit-chat and other time fillers
MEEKER — Cultural mores and traditions continue to vary across different sections of the country, and the rate of one’s speech patterns are often attributed to one’s geographical origin.
Loose Ends: A life of possibility inspires others
MEEKER — It isn’t until someone is gone that we are often able to put into words what it was that made them so unique, so admirable.
