A couple weeks ago when I wrote about life on the dairy farm, I left out the part about having to drive the tractor – I think I left it out conveniently. While I routinely drove the lawn mower, I never had to drive the tractor until one year that my father-in-law was incapacitated. He was ...

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, a little girl who loved to travel got car sick. A lot. In fact, the little girl spent much of her youth sitting beside her mother, the driver, fending off bouts of the stomach whoopsies. Her mother acquired her first car when the little girl was ...

In a world increasingly driven by digital connectivity, access to the internet is no longer a luxury – it is a fundamental necessity that allows Pennsylvanians to communicate, learn, work, socialize, and access essential services. The COVID-19 pandemic only magnified the challenges faced by ...

What exactly is Independence Day? It is the day we celebrate our breaking away from being an English colony. If you travel in Massachusetts, you see many signs of what the struggles were for our independence. That is the sight of Paul Revere’s Ride. That is where Bunker Hill is located. ...

I have a love/hate relationship with umbrellas. Sure, I love having one with me when it rains, and I try to keep one in the car. But I hate it when I reach in the back seat and come up empty-handed. Oh no, not again. Then I sit, with the windshield wipers flapping, wondering where I left the ...

June is Dairy Month. For more than thirty years I was directly tied into the dairy industry. I married a dairy farmer who brought me to his home area. Everything was new to me except for what I learned while we were dating. I was not used to the long days and the interruptions at ...