This year, the formation of the Lakes Region Seniors organization recognized seniors as an important segment of the community. I hope this continues for the future. Quite a few years ago, my hometown formed a Senior Needs Committee. One of its goals was to improve communication with senior citizens. Town management was concerned that seniors […]

Current Publishing’s annual year-end tradition of consulting the Magic 8-Ball is here again, and this year we eagerly await the answers to our most probing of questions, some serious and others not so much. If past years are any indication, the little black ball with a blurry floating mechanism can be quite the fortune-teller. Last […]

Let’s discuss impeachment. First, a little background: According to historians I haven’t bothered to consult, impeachment was invented in colonial Georgia, when irate citizens, fed up with corruption, pelted misbehaving government bureaucrats with peaches. So successful was this approach in punishing official malfeasance that the practice quickly spread to other colonies, although the lack of […]

Last year, for one reason or another, mostly another, we decided to close our camp during the coldest part of the winter. As we made up a list of all the little things to be done, I was suddenly reminded of the camp-closing rituals of my youth. Back then, we had a camp way Down […]