July is Ice Cream Month and I nearly missed it. Ice cream I think is America’s favorite dessert. Who does not love the cold dessert that can be put into a cone or eaten from a dish? The favorite flavor is vanilla, but chocolate comes in a close second. I love a twist cone that combines the ...

This is a true confessions column. I tried hard to do what was right, but Mother Nature challenged me today. The tiny chick appeared on our back porch rug yesterday morning. And she just sat there. Time went by. Mother Robin did not come to check on her, and more time went by. When I realized ...

The Durham Report confirmed the involvement of individuals promoting the Russian collusion hoax. Well before the report, honest news sources named culprits including former FBI director James Comey,assistant director Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and the Hillary Clinton Campaign. Earlier,the ...

Picnic food is some of the best. When I was growing up, we had many picnics. Many of them were informal, organized at the spur of the moment. When that happened, we were most often at my aunt and uncle’s cottage on Lake Erie. The cottage itself was nothing to write home about. It was a ...

My computer dictionary defines varmint as “an objectionable or undesirable animal, usually predatory, as a coyote or bobcat.” Fuggedaboudit. Not all varmints have four legs. My current objectionable and undesirable varmint has six legs. And wings. I have an infestation of Japanese ...

This is regarding the article about local churches that have disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church that was published in the Times Observer (June 17). I had hoped to have made this reply much sooner, but I have been spearheading the disaffiliation and reincorporation for Covenant ...