Masks work. Masks don’t work Six feet social distancing works. Six feet doesn’t work, it would take 27 feet. Vaccines work. Some vaccinated people are still getting sick, some dying. Follow the science. How? The Centers for Disease Control constantly contradicts itself. Some people ...

The old axiom, “You’re only as old as you feel” is true. Some days I feel 103, although I do work extra hard to keep my sense of humor at 27. I don’t know another way to handle feeling 103 except to laugh at it. The most amazing thing to me about aging is how much overlap there is ...

In “8:10 Land,” more local people — 117 — have died in less time than 21 died in the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. Warren County had 111 World War II casualties. Warren County remains in the high category of community transmission. However, in “8:10 Land,” less than ...

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater didn’t fulfill the terms of his contract. There are still pumpkins left. Everywhere. Besides, they are a renewable resource, and trying to rid the pumpkins of autumn is like trying to rid my garden of rabbits. Ain’t gonna happen. Before Labor Day, I saw the ...

Never invite a French bartender to your house. I learned this the hard way. But my passport says I am older and wiser now. My late husband and I spent the better part of a week in Paris in the ’70s, ensconced on the top floor of a rooming house that rented to tourists like us – with ...

I am a word nerd. I enjoy using words, playing with words, learning about words, reading words cobbled together in sentences and paragraphs and novels. As a student of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, I often research words in the original languages of Hebrew and Greek. I find it ...