LYDIA SIKES likes to joke that her husband PHIL dragged her here from Chicago nine years ago. “Actually, his daughter worked for me,” she said,… Continue reading
I have come to understand that sometimes we experience good things in our lives because we make them happen — we dream and toil, persist… Continue reading
Three four-legged guests at last week’s Red Cross Heroes Breakfast wore brightly colored vests bearing their names. They came forward with their human companions to… Continue reading
“I do believe in life everything happens for a reason and that I would not be what I am today without the people I have… Continue reading
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God ... .--Brenda Ueland“Feeling a bit overwhelmed?” my husband asked the… Continue reading
Just when things were humming along nicely in the city of Oak Harbor, a local Dutchman named ED BOONSTRA dared to hang an Irish flag… Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about the old Zen conundrum: What’s the sound of one hand clapping?My personal opinion? Nothing. If you don’t have two hands, you… Continue reading
Clare Booth Luce made this observation in her catty satires on New York society, but PATRICIA CHAPIN WALLACE of Oak Harbor would disagree.The energetic woman… Continue reading
While I have become discriminating about the e-mail messages I spend time reading, I always open forwards from a childhood friend because she is the… Continue reading
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?— Irv KupcinetElvis was a whole lot of fun to… Continue reading
It was a clear day in the early 1950s when a local woman headed to Maylor’s Hardware to pick up a few things.She arrived at… Continue reading
I had a couple of minutes to burn this week while waiting for a child’s activity to finish, so I grabbed my Reader’s Digest magazine… Continue reading
Short of hanging out on a tropical beach for a week, may I suggest a surefire way to warm up your winter? Go see FOOTLOOSE!The… Continue reading
When you think about God, does a loving father come to your mind? I can relate to this image for I experienced the great love… Continue reading
The Wurlitzer juke box cast a pale glow as couples stayed on for the last dance at the USO. She caught her breath as he… Continue reading
The term “Red Hat Society” usually conjures up images of women of a certain age dressed in purple and wearing red hats. Most people don’t… Continue reading
Over the years I’ve enjoyed varied professional development experiences and I once participated in a seminar that focused on basic publication design. It was extremely… Continue reading