News writing is a challenge. Each day a stack of mail, phone messages, and personal observations stand tall in the in basket. Assignment editors plow through this mass making phone calls, assigning items to follow up, postpone and dispose of. Dante’s “Inferno” creates a great parallel for the task.
Since we are now in hurricane season, I wanted to say a few things about these tropical tempests.
Once upon a time, we fed ourselves from our gardens in summer and preserved like mad to make it through the snowy months.
This issue of Remember When is to fulfill a promise I made last time to share why I write the things I write.
Pulling off a multiday canoe trip while keeping everyone happy, safe and comfortable is what you hire a guide for, but it is not that hard to do for an experienced canoeist.
“Here is your country,” President Theodore Roosevelt once told us.
Let’s say that you are listening to your favorite program when, all of a sudden, it is interrupted to advise you that your area is under a severe thunderstorm warning.
Fathers’ Day presents a challenge to many people. Finding a gift to express a little love and appreciation for dear old Dad, however heartfelt, reduces many to a jokey card and a muttered half-apology that “it is the thought that counts.”
I guess the first question is, what’s the deal with the title? Well, it’s actually a time for a little horse race that I like to call The Kentucky Derby, and further, it is the fastest time in which it has ever been run.
The effects of military service often do not end with a tour of duty. For some veterans and their families, the journey may extend for a lifetime.
