Fair Week is over for Hamilton County; the State Fair begins next week. In part, this means now is the time for that annual event known as “Back to School Shopping.” This is a ritual that has grown over the years into a 2 billion website hit in .5 seconds thing on the internet. I remember, ...
School kids won’t be eager to read this, but summer vacation is about two-thirds over. Classes resume in less than a month! Before kindergarten summer vacation doesn’t mean much because life is pretty much a vacation every day anyway. And after you get a job as a teenager, summer vacation generally means work. But during those wonderful years in between, summer vacation means, well, it means summer vacation. It’s been many years since I enjoyed a summer vacation but I remember them well. (I am retired but retirement is not as fun as summer vacation.) The first hint of ...
The bite is on! The summer months are when most people go fishing, and the action can be fast. Most fish are constantly looking for something to eat at this time of year, and they’ll look for that something to eat in a variety of places. Their prey can be in deep water, shallow water, or ...
The world around us seems to be changing every day. This makes us appreciate life’s constants even more. One of those near constants is the Grand Ol’ Opry. The weekly radio broadcast from Nashville began nearly a century ago on November 28, 1925. Thanks to cable, satellite and streaming television it is possible to watch the Grand Ol' Opry on television each week. Of course, you can still listen to the Grand Ol’ Opry on WSM Radio. I discovered the Grand Ol’ Opry on the family’s old console radio as a kid. My first full-time job was at a radio station in north central Iowa ...
Every time I walk through our neighborhood, I’m impressed by the care shown in the maintenance of it; from mowing and trimming to the variety of trees and shrubs. It is truly a restful, peaceful place. The beauty of the stones and monuments are equally amazing. It got me wondering about ...
Our last episode saw Daily Freeman-Journal Interim Editor Jane Curtis simultaneously move from the driver’s seat and, in a surprise development, be completely blindsided – in a good way – by those wily women of Beta Sigma Phi, the social, educational and service sorority. The local chapter, knowing her penchant for expressing an opinion, invited Curtis to speak at its April 24 Founder’s Day dinner. The Woman of the Year award was a complete surprise. Well, here’s another surprise: She’s back. Which means I can move to the first-person tense here. I am back. Those of ...
