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What did you say your name was?

Last week’s chat about forgetting the keys and the glasses? Fuggedaboudit. This week’s unforgettable subject is even more serious. It’s about names. I used to be good at remembering names — until about the last 40 years or so. A few weeks ago, I was having a lunch meeting with two friends. At one point, I watched a fellow diner cross the room to the buffet. He looked familiar – but from where? Did he teach locally? Did he work at the post office? Maybe he was a local who had moved away? While I was pondering who he could be, he spotted me and crossed the room. Oh, no! ...

View from Hickory Heights: Picnic season begins

Picnics took on various purposes through the years. Sometimes we had picnics when the men were working. That meant that either my sister-in-law and her family traveled or we did. In those days we ran two farms together. When the men worked at the lower farm, the picnic was there. When they worked on the upper farm that is where we had our picnics. Of course, whoever happened to be working with them that day had a picnic with us. The neighbor’s children were often helpers. Boy could those kids eat. They were good to feed because they ate everything and never complained. They sat by ...

Rounding Third: Forget-Me-Not is more than a flower

Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most. I wish that old cliche were not so appropriate. I don’t know who said that first, but he or she was a perceptive genius, and definitely over sixty – the age when chronic forgetfulness moves in permanently. What are you saying to yourself? “I’m only 50 and I forget something every day?” Lucky you. You have been blessed with early onset CRS … Can’t Remember Stuff. I’m sorry for you, but I can’t help. And there is more bad news about this insidious disease: there’s no cure. It gets worse. Once you start losing ...

Warren Worx can be a game plan for future

It is time we all rally around “Warren Worx.” I have read numerous opinions in the local newspaper and conversations on the street that “it won’t work” and “we don’t need branding” and “we better get the branding right” and “there are better things to spend our money on” and on and on and on. OK, let’s all agree on a few things. — Our population is declining and if that continues, whatever our current situation is in terms of available tax revenues, quality of entertainment, quality of school system(s), health care, sports, etc. will continue to ...

Differing views, but one county reality

By JAMES SPANGER, O.D. I am responding to a letter about a letter about the sign. I know all three men involved. They are all gentlemen and determined in their views, I am opposed to the gentleman on the right’s depiction of the spin of the sign. I agree that the agencies on development within the county should be concerned about the words on the sign. Donald Trump won a large majority of the votes in Warren County in 2016 and 2020. Contrary to a commonly promoted opinion, he did not win the nationwide election in 2020. Stop the steal is a lie and Trump’s own election overseer ...

View from Hickory Heights: A garden vegetable?

First of all, I believe rhubarb is technically a vegetable since it has no seeds in it. Once again, my rhubarb is ready to pick. I have already made sauce and one pie. I have only two plants. But that is enough for me. When one of my son’s employees wanted to get rid of her rhubarb, I gladly took my two plants. That was years ago now. My plants are thriving under the windmill derrick. We have always had rhubarb. The house my daughter lives in has a very large bed. It has been there for a very long time. We used to go over there when the people we bought the place from lived there. ...