Skydiving is the latest big adventure for 80-year-olds. Well, not for all of them, but I’ve heard more than a few rumbles about this wonderful growing insanity. Yesterday, I received an email from Barbara, an old friend who is not letting the stacked-up years affect her days. A couple of ...

Allow me to submit a light hearted narrative based on two old friends fishing in Warren County. I thought readers would enjoy this. Part 1 (Excited Fisherman arrive at stream-side) Johnny Fishburn: Hey Scales we can park over here and be out of the way. Scales: OK I’ll see if I can ...

The other day as I was talking to the mothers of former students, I realized how much a part of my life children were. I always loved children. I am talking about children that I interacted with on many levels. As I was growing up, I did a lot of babysitting. My first job was for my one of my ...

When those Roman guys switched from togas to pants, they got pockets. It’s been that way ever since. The men got the simplest of all the clothes, the three-brush-stroke hairstyles, and all the easiest household chores. AND they got pockets? No fair. ‘ Then Levi Strauss designed five ...

It’s kind of rewarding to see some formal actions to attempt to address the challenges of the Warren County community, with its decline in population as the stated key reason. Although the intent is recognized, the questions of the structure, process, and management of such an endeavor are ...

On the Internet I recently found something that piqued my interest. On a site called the “Power of Positivity” it listed the Seven Wonders of the World like this. “We can: see, hear, touch, taste, smell, laugh, and love.” This is more than the five senses. It also includes feelings ...