A book I think would be great reading, in case anyone is interested, would be a biography of the life of Emily Post, who as everyone knows, was the give-all and end-all of proper etiquette. If you wanted to set one foot out of your baronial home to mingle with the affluent well-heeled, you’d better […]

I miss playgrounds. Not just because playgrounds symbolize a carefree, joyous attitude toward life, but also because when I was a kid, I could cross the monkey bars without having vertigo. Now, the only thing I do well on playgrounds is warm up the benches. I keep my seat better than members of Congress. Speaking […]

It was the first time in my childhood I had an excuse for coming home late for dinner, but nobody — not even the cops — would listen. In the summer of 1972, when I was 10, Tommy Gillen and I built a dam in the creek on the other side of the Horning Road […]

In 2018, there was an incredible and tenacious lady in the community, Caroline Russell, who volunteered at several area nonprofits, including The Gathering Place, Tedford Housing and Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. Caroline saw firsthand the impact these organizations made on the lives of the folks they served as well as the community, and she […]